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When we got our first IBM compatible PC (a 486) my father wanted to have a modem in it. His friend who sold it to him couldn't fathom why he would want a modem. But of course he got it anyways.
In the beginning my father used it for online banking over BTX. And when my brother got his own PC a few years later we played Doom with the modems over our house's internal telephone lines.
My actual first internet experience was reading and writing to newsgroups on Usenet. (that worked more or less the same as Lemmy) My posts can probably still be found in archives. I mostly hung out in de.rec.sf.starwars. That's actually how I found my first girlfriend.
Besides that I also surfed the web for different stuff. I still remember how Google became popular because it wasn't so weighed down by ads and clutter and it actually gave you much better results than Alta Vista or Yahoo.