Where were you in 1996?

katekirschner · January 2011

I was a junior in high school. A music nerd who did all the singing groups and musicals! I was on aol as my parents got that. We got a separate phone line for dial up and I could use as a phone just for me when they weren't online!

colacrock · January 2011

I was seven years old in elementary school Big Smile

sprice88 · January 2011

I was 16...probably counting the days until I got my license!

mrs. remy · January 2011

I was 18 and it was my freshman year in college.

Jocelyn0415 · January 2011

I was 9 years old and in 4th grade lol.

ErikaSpelling · January 2011

I was 9!

ryry1977 · January 2011

Graduating high school, starting collage.

madameladauphine · January 2011

I was 21, just started working at the nightclub where I met my DH.

Echowysp · January 2011

melrrr:
Graduating from college and starting law school.

At least I am not the only one who wasn't in middle school...lol.

Echowysp · January 2011

cola.crockett:
I was seven years old in elementary school

I would wipe that smile off of my face, but my arthritis is flaring up today.

ohfour · January 2011

I was 10, so in like, 5th grade?

sweetfern · January 2011

In 10th grade. I didn't even know what AOL or the internet was until I got my first computer in 1999.

Singingmama · January 2011

I was 12 years old and in 6th Grade. I don't remember using the internet till I was in high school, when I got addicted to AOL instant messaging and chat rooms, lol! Until recently, I hadn't been in a chat room in a long time.

C.Mo · January 2011

I was in the 6th grade, being introduced to the awesomeness that was "computer solitaire."

nolebride · January 2011

I was finishing up freshman year of college and deciding to transfer schools. I vaguely remember using the internet but obviously it wasn't very much since I don't recall.

JennifernKevin4ever · January 2011

I was 12 and in the 6th grade.

tabi_ja · January 2011

I was 12 (turned 13 in August), and in 7th grade. I was programming the computers at school using BASIC. The following year, our school go computers that were using C programming, instead, so everything I learned about programming went out the window. Ce la vie.

sevans1975 · January 2011

I was in my 2nd year of college. Feels like eons ago!

shihtzumomma · January 2011

I was 8 years old and probably in the 3rd grade. We didn't get a computer and AOL until 2000, when I was about 12.

only1erin · January 2011

depending on which part of the year i was either in 11th grade or 12th grade.

mechanicsgirl · January 2011

I was 9...so 4th grade?

superaunt · January 2011

15 years ago... I was already older than many of the posters on this board! YIKES!

jenna0627 · January 2011

I was 12 so in middle school. I can't remember anything specific or great that year.

m0132 · January 2011

I was 8 and thought my life was over because my parents were moving us out of state.

anna7602 · January 2011

I was living in Spain and had very little exposure to the internet. I think I knew what it was, but I didn't have an email account I used regularly.

Kflie83 · January 2011

8th grade baby!! The summer between 8th grade and Freshman year is when I fell in love with AOL too!

katiekate1974 · January 2011

Jr. in college.

stever · January 2011

I was whooping it up in Europe! Best. Year. Ever!

T&BMay142005 · January 2011

I was a junior in high school. We didn't have the internet at our high school yet. I came from a small rural town in WI. In 1997 there was one computer that had internet on it. We had to be supervised and it was only for research. Apparently in 1998 the all the computers in the high school had internet.

Anyway, I didn't get addicted to message boards until 1999, when I was a sophomore in college. I had recently met DH and we chatted on AOL for hours. He lived in the dorm hall next to mine. Lol

katypresson · January 2011

Well....I was 13 years old in middle school (8th grade).

babyb'smomma · January 2011

Starting sophomore year of college! A friend introduced me to the internet and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Geez, I feel old...

robbie3982 · January 2011

I was 13 and in the 7th grade. I don't think we had internet yet, but I could be wrong.

groovygrl · January 2011

You've only got about 2 yrs on me I'd say .

I was studying in Spain in 1996.

dswed0407 · January 2011

Ending 8th grade/starting my freshman year of high school!

TSD · January 2011

Supposed to be graduating college but not. Had to stick it out one more year. In an apartment living like Three's Company but with 2 guys. Working part time in a tanning salon.

We had just really gotten internet, it was dial up, and I was super addicted.

anna7602 · January 2011

groovygrl:

You've only got about 2 yrs on me I'd say .

I was studying in Spain in 1996.

Where were you? I was in Sevilla.

Chrysallys · January 2011

I had already been married to my first husband a year, owned my own business, and was very active in my local theatre scene and in the SF rave scene. I was 24.

ETA: Holy crap I am old compared to most of you!

CalinsBride · January 2011

I was in grade 6! It felt like I would NEVER get to graduate and go to high school! I remember thinking about it and how far away it seemed. I also did a lot of chat room chatting with friends, pretending to be people we weren't. But the difference is, we were ELEVEN. We obviously wouldn't pull that shiz now Confused

Echowysp · January 2011

Chrysallys:
I had already been married to my first husband a year, owned my own business, and was very active in my local theatre scene and in the SF rave scene. I was 24.

ETA: Holy crap I am old compared to most of you!

Yeah, tell me about it.

mrslinde · January 2011

SimarikSmokin:
in 6th grade! Listening to Alanis you ougtha know hating my parents for sending me to private school

yAY! i was in 6th grade too...listening to Alanis! (but not in private school).

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