My first 'online' experience was browsing the various Acorn BBS', including Hugo's old one. Although I had to do it with my Dad's old works Mac Classic and a fax modem pilfered from a Newton Messagepad. I'll be honest, it wasn't massively interesting. But it was infinitely easier to get PD software that way instead of having to get someone to stick them on a floppy and mail it to you!

My first experience of the internet was in 1994 while working for a radio station over the summer. They'd started with a Compuserve account and quickly moved onto Demon's 'tenner a month' service. First on a 14.4 modem then in 1996 they moved to ISDN. Browsing over dual channel ISDN was seriously speedy. I was their 'webmaster' until I left for uni in '97.

My first home internet experience was in 1995, using someone else's Demon account at weekends when I could pinch the school's old 14.4 USR Courier that they used for RAS! One of the perks of having a parent who's a teacher at said school...