I didn't get access to the internet until I was 16...it was just unbelievable to me that it existed at all. Painfully long dial-up, getting automatically kicked off after an hour (moofed) and then my mum yelling at me about the phone being out of use. I used dial up until I met Steve and was introduced to broadband...I guess not, since we only started getting internet around latest 90's and early 00's.
At the time the internet was like some novelty that we only used for a short while, to look for trivial information.
I didn't join an internet community until 2000.
Online community wise, I used MSN chat rooms back in 2002 and then progressed to online forums in 2005.