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I've had internet since 2001 but...

... I've never used e-bay. Never signed up, never sold or bought anything on e-bay.
... never had paypal.
... never used my credit card online.

After 11 years I quit ordering from amazon two years ago. I used amazon mostly to buy DVDs and Blu-rays, and the last 4 years I would buy between 15-20 blu-rays per month. I had piles of unwatched discs. Now I buy my physical media at stores, about 5-7 a month and I'm fine with that. Do I miss the convenience of ordering online? Not really. Plus, no more tempting amazon sales to clutter my shelves.

... I've never used movie streaming services because I'm spoiled by Blu-ray HD. Streaming is a step down in quality so why should I pay for less? And I don't care if Orange is the new Black or that Hannibal got cancelled. I stopped watching TV fifteen years ago and I absolutely don't feel like I'm missing out on anything.

Your turn to confess!

I'm one of those people who will post something-then check it on and off for the next 10-20 minutes hoping someone replies.

I often check out the pages of people that I know I'll disagree with just to see what they are saying.  I'll tell myself I'm never going to that page again-only to do it the next day.

No paid streaming service or online gaming for me.

I once posted a trolling comment to Gail Simone-(professional comic book writer of Wonder Woman, Birds of Prey etc).  And she replied.

I never really got in to the on-line gaming all that much.  For years we didn't have the bandwidth for it as the games got more intensive.  Nor most of the music stuff either.  I just have iTunes and that's pretty much it.  I don't stream Pandora or the like down to my car because not only do I have satellite radio but I also have music on my iPhone.

I've been chatting with the same person online for 15 years now; I consider her one of my closest friends, but we have never met face to face.

Kind of related, to this day I have never learned to photoshop. I've tried many times but to no avail. Over the years I looked up many videos on how to do it but yeah, I'm lacking skills and finesse  :bouncegiggle:

Also, 2009 went down in history as I was actually able to take my very first (and only) screen capture! I only managed because a online friend talked me through the procedure  :bouncegiggle:
I wouldn't know how to take one if you'd asked me today though.

I first used the Net in 1997.

The first website I ever went to was the IMDB.

The first film banner I clicked on was the one for Event Horizon.

The first email I ever sent was to the actor Robert Urich. (RIP)

The first virus my work PC ever got was the Stupid Jerk virus.

I normally either buy DVDs in store or on www.takealot.com. (http://www.takealot.com.)

I search for cut price undies on www.itchyandscratchy.com (http://www.itchyandscratchy.com)  :buggedout: :wink:

Since I find arguing over the Internet largely unproductive and unpleasant, I frequently write out a response to a stupid post and then not submit it. It's very therapeutic.

I had one like that for several years.  She lives in New York state and I'm out here in Iowa.  We met through twitter when I asked her a question about medication we were both taking.  Kind of went from there and we were pretty good friends for a while.  When I decided to go cross NYC off my bucket list she came down to visit.  We lost touch in 2013 after her divorce and it's been a couple years since I've talked to her.

I've never had a credit card and until I got married had never taken out a bank loan. This caused a few issues when I went to get my security clearance renewed and despite having worked for the RAF for 10 years at that point, they couldn't find any proof I existed when they carried out a credit check.

I have one of those too.   
I have no time for online gaming of any kind, I just don't care to play with strangers.
-Ed

I've never visited www.nakedandninety.com (http://www.nakedandninety.com) .

I started using the Net in 2000. I didn't have a computer in my house till 2006 so until then I took care of all of my Net doin's on a PC at the public library.

My first Internet browser was Netscape Navigator.

The first thing I ever ordered online was a CD from a now-defunct site called CDNow.

I've never bought, sold or bid on anything on eBay.

I use Facebook but I never had a MySpace page.

When I started using the Internet usenet was the killer app. There wasn't much on the worldwide web and it took forever to download a simple low-res picture. I had email but since I didn't know anyone else with an account it was pretty useless.

I started using the internet in 1998. Before that, I was completely ignorant about computers. Didn't really learn how to use them until my mid-20s aside from gaming on a Commodore 64.

I've used ebay to buy and sell but selling from here usually ends up costing me more than I get out of it as ebay underestimates our overpriced shipping rates here.

I've had far more loyal and true friends I've never met in person online (some in the last 15+years) than many of the so-called real friends I've had in my life.

I've been a regular at many sites on their message boards but most either revamped so dramatically I no longer had any interest in posting there or their message boards no longer exist. This is one of the longer lasting message boards I've been a regular on.

I used to write online TV episode reviews for one site but they're no longer available online. Still have them stored away though. Have considered starting my own website to post stuff like that again but I've been reluctant as I know little about putting up my own site and I know how much time I put into those in the first place and I know it would cut into time in my daily life to do it right and to do it justice and I'm not sure I have that much time and energy to invest at the moment.

I've been known to log in late at night when I couldn't sleep to see if there's anything new online.

I rarely watch any movies online and if I do, it'll be on youtube for free. Greatly prefer other formats such as DVD, BluRay, even VHS or just watching it on TV.

I've noticed a difference in people online. To me, far more people are more outspoken and rude, even about topics they really know little about or don't fully understand. To me, all forms of entertainment media have declined in quality since the early 2000s on-wards. Everything has become about instant gratification and flash means more than substance now. So many things now are forgettable and interchangeable and lack meaning.

I have Facebook but I don't like it very much. I have Twitter but barely use it. Never had MySpace yet it sounded more appealing than Facebook.

I've never played PS games online, only used it to download content and then only free content.

I used to be a top-100 reviewer on Amazon.com but they changed the contributor rating system a few years back and I don't even know what my ranking is anymore. Way up in the nosebleed section, I'm sure. Reviewing on there was a hobby that filled the hours while I worked a job that took me far from home and had two basic modes: either stressfully boring or stressfully intense.

I never used a credit card online.

My mom usually has the radio on in the morning and keeps it on through lunchtime.  I noticed a lot of times that the signal was full of interference and the like.  It was so bad sometimes that you couldn't hear the broadcast.  So I went and got them an internet radio receiver (http://www.amazon.com/Grace-Digital-3-5-Inch-Display-GDI-IRC6000/dp/B004YI9NTS/ref=zg_bs_3236446011_1) for Christmas last year.  I was able to set up the local radio station on the receiver for them so all they have to do is turn it on like any other radio.  The reception is so much better pretty much all the time.  (Occasionally the stream goes down on the station's end so they still have a regular radio as a backup).  Plus I've set up a few other stations - including WSM in Nashville so they could listen to Grand Ol' Opry if they wanted. 

I've signed up and tried twitter once years ago but lost interest pretty fast. I still get notifications from twitter telling me about people I don't know are following me. Kind of funny as I only posted like two meaningless sentences.

I was told by Facebook friends to join Instagram but it felt like twitter with pics. And it's all about followers as well. Again, lost interest pretty fast.

I don't want to alarm everyone but I post daily on a website called www.badmovies.org (http://www.badmovies.org) ;)

Same here. I joined Twitter a year or so ago just to take part in a contest that SyFy was having to come up with a sub-title for "Sharknado 2," cuz Twitter was the only way to send in entries. So I signed up and Tweeted them several dozen silly suggestions, none of which were used, of course (i.e. "The Shark Knight Returns," "The Shark Who Shagged Me," "A Good Day to Shark Hard," etc.) and I haven't been back on it since.... but every day I get a couple of e-mails from them telling me that so-and-so is "following" me, or telling me that so-and-so "in my network" has made a post, etc., etc. I'm like "I have a 'network?' Really?"

I hacked a guy's Facebook. Wasn't that hard, the moron had personal information lying around the web that let me reset his password.

I know it's not right but I still don't feel that bad. The guy was a con-artist.

 :bouncegiggle:

Yeah, me too.

I have a google+ account that I only made to login to youtube,its completely sandboxed, no friends, no circles and has absolutely no reason to exist other than that one feature.

I have a twitter account with only 4 followers, been that way for a long time. I only made it to follow people not because I think the sandwich I had yesterday is so fascinating.

I have no idea what a vuvuzela is and I'm kind of not sure I want to find out.

Ive gone from full time gamer to strictly casual, I only get a game off of steam if I REALLY want to try it,which is practically never. Otherwise I just use GOG.

Ive never made a meme.

I havn't been really interested in a new triple A videogame since skyrim. And frankly have been pretty put off by them ever since.

I like to watch thrift store VHS's on my crappy VCR even though I have a dozen HD quality DVDs Ive never watched.

I have every episode of MST3K on my computer and have been playing them on my tv, I have watched them so many times alot of the dialog is burned into my brain even though the quality is really crumby.

I'm a fan of the MST3K myself.  Sometimes I copy episodes over to my iPad and take them with me to the Y so that I can work out while watching the episodes.  Makes the workouts go faster when The Master is not away and Gamera is showing what a big friend he is of the children.

A vuvuzela is a noise maker from the very depths of hell.

http://youtu.be/YpXN8BvGp_o (http://youtu.be/YpXN8BvGp_o)

I was in Italy back in 2010 to among other things take pictures of mostly nude statues to post in the humorous captions part of this forum.  One evening before dinner I turned on a soccer match and the fans had those damn vuvuzelas going full blast.  I had to mute the television, that's how irritating the sound of those things was getting.  Thank GOD those accursed things are banned in stadiums over here.  I don't think I could watch, let along sit in a stadium with those things being used all the time.

*takes off shades* mother of god...

That was the song of the South African world cup: let me play you the song of my people, if you will.  :smile: :smile:

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Sitting in a soccer stadium hearing hundreds of those things going off is like sitting in a hive of very angry bees.  :buggedout: :buggedout:

Since I only buy and prefer physical media, I've never bought music downloads online except for this one time. Someone gave me a $10 iTunes Gift Card for my birthday once years ago (most useless birthday present I ever got btw) so I randomly picked one song from the store just to see how this works. I don't even remember what song it was, but it cost like $0.69 or something. I deleted the song afterwards. This was also my first and last time I've ever logged into the iTunes Apple store. I'm pretty sure whatever money left on the card must be expired by now.

On a related note, my cell phone provider was offering a free download of the latest Foo Fighters album last year around Christmas. I had no interest whatsoever so I ignored the text message. They send me two more, and then they broke protocol sending me a personal message. Basically they couldn't believe I was refusing such an "awesome" offer for free. They didn't say it directly but in so many ways. Sorry but I don't care about Foo Fighters even if its for free.

I do own mp3s on my iTunes though the majority are rare / odd tracks either online friends send me or I ripped from YouTube. I have a pretty good stereo system and I prefer to listen to music on that.

1st internet I had was WEBTV - 1996. No mouse just a remote.

1st thing I've researched = Godzilla photos, movies.

I used to have to drive back and forth to the Quad Cities (Iowa/Illinois) for work quite a bit, it was about 75 miles one way.  During the winter if the weather got really bad I would stay in a hotel.  If I thought I would have to stay in a hotel I'd take my personal laptop along so I'd have internet access if I spent the night.  I usually kept a change of clothes in my car all the time in case I had to spend the night.  One time I think in 2007 I forgot to take my laptop along and wound up having to use the WEBTV the hotel provided in the rooms to check my email.  The web browser on the TV had a hell of a time with the Yahoo email.

I used to go to the library and use their internet stations.  I haven't done that in about ten years now.  I had a laptop with wi-fi, this was an excuse to get out of the house and be around people.  The library at the time didn't have wi-fi access.

I've used Facebook since 2008.  I had a MySpace account for a while that I used fairly regularly back in 2008 but as the year wore on I stopped looking at it as much.  I deleted my account a few years later.  MySpace seemed clunkier than Facebook.  Facebook seemed to run better and Facebook remembered my login, unlike MySpace which required me to log in every time I visited the site and didn't have the option to save the logon. 

I remember the ol' Netscape Navigator.  It's what the University was using as their standard web browser when I went to school.  After a year they made Internet Exploder available too.

I've bought a few things on eBay.  I bought a Commodore 64 a few years back.  Earlier this year I needed an extra monitor so I was able to get one from there for only $30. 

I once sold a dust bunny on EBay.

 :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:

Be very glad you haven't.  :wink: :teddyr: :teddyr:

he first website I ever visted in 1996 was about octopi.
-Ed

You're always welcome to friend me (Trevor Moses) on there: just look for a pic of a guy with his arm around a lovely lady - my special sister - and his right hand up Kermit's bum.  :wink:

Back around Halloween 2003 I sent all my friends a link to a haunted rhino cam at the Cincinnati Zoo, which said the building which housed its rhinos was built about 100 years ago and the spirit of a former caretaker was often seen in the pens, so a live feed had been set up to capture the ghost. Well, it turns out it wasn't real, it was one of those screamer things, and some of my friends wrote back peeved emails after they jumped out of their seats, and I had to be like, "Haha, yeah, I got you good." because that was preferable to admitting my chagrin at having forwarded a link I had never actually watched myself.  :bouncegiggle:

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I never knew what this meme was about. Take into account that I live outside the U.S. and I've never watched South Park. I thought "Ermahgerd" was some sort of Viking word, or joke, that went over my head. I mean, how should I've known? Some memes should come with instructions for foreigners  :wink:

Had an "online relationship" with two women. One was from Colorado, the other from Minnesota. One of them wanted to leave her husband and come live with me in MI. The other one would send me stuff, including skimpy thongs and nude pics of herself. She had a son who I think was not much younger than me.

I still sometimes contact the Minnesota woman, but I think she's divorced now.