What was your first Online gaming experience?

[LeonNemurs]

My earliest PC online gaming experience, I think, would have to be club penguin. Loved that game. Probably around 2008-2009, maybe 2007, not sure.

My earliest console online experience I can remember would have been Smash Bros Brawl, I remember it was unplayably laggy.

[Pippa_the_Prius]

My very first online gaming experience was multiplayer minecraft! I was still in primary school and was so surprised it even worked, I had no idea how servers worked, I just found an IP online and put it in.

From then on my life changed- lol! 

[asillycalicokitty]

Hard to really be certain about it, but my guess is Toontown Online in 2006-ish. That also led to my first forum experiences on toontask.com, which sadly no longer exists. My first real writing projects also ended up being Toontown fanfiction too, actually. Toontown ended up being a lot of my first online things!

[rhyswynne]

My guess is an online game called Planetarion, it was a browser built space trading, building and mining, I can't remember too much about it but we had a clan within our class in school, until it got blocked on the computer network :(

I miss it, was an addiction to about 30 of us as we just turned 18 for a few months.

[navi]

Mine was very interesting as I got CSGO shipped to my address from another state, although I didn't knew I can buy online on Steam. Soon after getting my hands on the glorious PC Box (Still have it) I got slapped with major server issue for Mumbai, it remained down for straight 1 year and I had never experienced official matchmaking. Then it was place of no return as I got hooked on DOTA 2 with friends those were days - also got flunked in grade 11 because of VALVE.

[littlelum]

My first experience wasn't too interesting. As a little kid, I just got curious about Mario Kart Wii's "Nintendo WFC" thingy and just played that for a while. So, I didn't really have any interactions with others for the five or so years of online gaming.

[estvs]

it was deff world of warcraft! started playing before i could read and its something i still really enjoy today. the zones of it are just so beautiful 

my mom is actually how i got into it, i saw her playing it and naturally it made me want to try it out. i mostly just wanted to explore the world (of warcraft) and collect things, so i would play on her characters to fly around and discover things on my own-
she eventually taught me how to farm mounts and pets for her (to my excitement), which is super funny looking back on it.. it was mostly mounts neither of us have gotten yet! (because they are annoying LOL)

she also still plays it too so we play it together sometimes and bond over talking about whatever were working on in it. 

its played such a strangely significant part of my life since its been there for so long, even more so since my mom and step dad actually met on it when i was a kid still!

[Rotting_Heart]

My memories of gaming online are faint, but I remember adoring poptropica! I would always go into the club they had in there and steal peoples outfits lol. I remember buying so much stuff from the store they had that I couldn't even use it because my inventory wouldn't load from lag lmao.


I also remember using roblox, I still do sometimes due to it's age range being upped so now there's more "teenage" games on there (if you look past the brainrot and cashgrabs that is..) haven't played in a while due to the controveries tho

[virtualpet2001]

NICKTROPOLIS on NICK DOT COM when i could barely READ. it was like the nickelodeon version of habbo hotel basically. all i remember is it had comics from issues of the nick magazine for you to read and virtual pet fish which were the one thing i gaf about the most. a little after that my dad said he was getting me something "better than nicktropolis" and got me a webkinz bullfrog and that account lasted me many many years. I wish webkinz didnt delete old accounts T_T

[Gnee]

Hard to really be certain about it, but my guess is Toontown Online in 2006-ish. That also led to my first forum experiences on toontask.com, which sadly no longer exists. My first real writing projects also ended up being Toontown fanfiction too, actually. Toontown ended up being a lot of my first online things!

Mine was also Toontown! I started around the beta period, then its official launch in 2003. TTO holds so many memories for me, and I still remember the launching of features like estates or fishing. It's one of those games that's easy to remember feeling so magical and endless despite how simple it actually is. I also played Toon Tag in Epcot before TTO itself released. As a kid, I was very confused for a long time on what the connection was between these two games.