Originally Posted by
~Elizabeth~
I was introduced to the internet in the summer of 1996 in a public library. A friend named Edward, not a boyfriend, showed me how to get an email address. I think it was yahoo. After that I used the internet a few times at that library in Salisbury, North Carolina. To use the computer one had to give the librarian your ID. A driver's license or a non-driver's state identification card, which is what I had. The librarian would keep the ID until I was finished with my time on the computer.
Then I moved to Florida in late December 1998. I would go to the library and internet cafes to use their computers until 2006. In late 2006, I bought my first laptop, a Hewlett Packard (HP) and I got dial-up until moving in the summer of 2008. Then I was back to using the library's computers and internet cafes once in a while until 2016. For a while I used a neighbor's free wifi, I don't know whose it was.
I bought a portable wifi device from Straight Talk in 2016. Then I switched to using my cellphone's hotspot, I forget when exactly that was but I've had internet at home consistently since 2016.
I don't have a Yahoo email address anymore. I had AOL for a while starting in 2006 when I got dial-up at home. I think I had Hotmail too.
Laptops. I had an HP, a DELL, two Acers, and now a new HP Chromebook.
I use Gmail and proton mail email addresses.