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Internet Firsts is a weekly series that highlights your funny, embarrassing or otherwise interesting first internet experiences. This week we asked our blog and Facebook readers about their first online video experiences. I'll start things off with my first online video story.

In the late 90s, I was on a 56k dial-up connection, so it would take hours to download even the tinest video clips. I got into the habit of leaving the computer and AOL (It was all-caps back then!) connection on all night long so I could download music and video. The first video I can remember seeing was probably a Victoria's Secret commercial. What do you want, I was 14.

Take it away, readers!
Ido C
it was a dog humping an old lady... yep.
Allan M
My first foray into the world of the internet brought me straight into meme-dom with the classic "Dancing Baby". Perhaps a precursor of my meme interest to come?
Faye A
Oh my god mine must have been the dancing baby too!
Bill W
My first web video was the exploding whale!
Rachel M. Sevier
best I can remember it was the dancing squirrel with the swinging cojones




I don't think we can show this one on Urlesque...
Nancy Lucía López
I received a hilarious dancing penis via email, but I'm not sure that was the first video. Just the first video I saved.


Geeze. Can't show this one either.
Steve Silva
yeah I remember the first online video. It was awful. One second I was at the yahoo website and then I clicked on something that was supposed to take me to a music video. All of a sudden the screen got scrambled with all sorts of colors, then it went blank. After that my comp died. Now this was on a Win95 comp with a dial-up connection, which meant that I saw my computer die a slow and painful death.


We've all been there. It's weird to think about how I can't remember the last time my computer crashed. It's been years.
Garret G
I don't remember the very first video i saw, but the first one that sticks in my mind was on Ebaumsworld... when these guys tried to tow a car our of the snow and they ripped off the whole back of the car...I'm sure you remember.
glanzerr
Our 8th grade science teacher showed us the dancing baby video before class one day. I think the first video I tried downloading on my own was the K-Ci & Jojo "All My Life" music video.