Counter-Strike, don't remember which version, I was 7 or 8.

Warcraft 2 on a LAN.

Then, Diablo 1 on battle.net

The first game I played online was Runescape of all things.

Runescape. Back then, just the idea that their were other people playing the game in the same world as me was mind blowing

Duke Nukem 3D and Doom over modems. When I got the 'net, it was Quake over a shite modem connection. Later I dabbled with the Aliens Online game, which wasn't much fun over dialup.
And then my friends started having LAN parties. Quake, Hexen, Duke3D, Warcraft... The awesomeness of the Quake Superhero mod is difficult to describe with words. "Ants in the Pants" in the lava-filled DM map was a griefing joy.

Probably Diablo 2, im not gonna count Runescape :S

halo 2,lockout,10 years old,won and got a stick.won 50-47.It was the best game in halo 2 i had ever had.all the other games i had were crudy.

Marcosco:
I was 17. Ele/Necro, named Vladimir Pyrobokor, on the original Guild Wars campaign.

Yeah, that's right. It was less than 2 years ago.

Oh well.

Same here, first one I can remember owning was Shadowrun.

Jumplion:
Technically, it was Resistance: Fall of Man. What? I came out of the PS2 era, few games ever even had online play and I didn't game on PC much at the time.

Same, it was bloody nasty. I was getting slaughtered, but was grinning like an idiot the whole time. "Holy shit, that guy who just killed me is someone else playing from another country."

Dying ain't never been so fun since.

Wow pretty varied although quite a few quakes I see :P I can honestly say I have never played quake 1 2 or 3, and have only played unreal tournament 2004 and UT3. May seem strange considering I love FPS's but the movement in those games I really disliked even though I bet the games are incredible :P :)

ummm, must have been age of empires 2. I loved that game so much, even though i was pretty crap (i was only like 11 at the time tho, i had an excuse!

Starcraft.

I spent the entire game trying to type out the cheat codes - to everyone out loud in the game. Took me a good 2-3 full games to understand cheats don't work online like they do off line...

I never won any of those.

Unfortunately, I think it was Runescape...

But that doesn't count. I was young and foolish. First real game was Counterstrike. I still remember my first map. It was Italy, and I bought the pump shotgun.

I was the captain of the failboat.

Halo 2 I believe. That was on the 360 as well. What? I don't play games on P.C and it was only this gen where online gaming became the big thing on consoles.

Red Alert 2, I was playing as Soviets, and out of no where, 5 minutes into the game, while I was having a happy fun time setting up my base, my opponent stormed me with 50+ prism tanks and ended me within seconds.

I was 12.

runescape:)

I was 16, and after playing HL through at least 5 times, I decided to give Team Fortress Classic a try, seeing as how it came with it. It was fun over dial-up, but the deathmatch-esque style did not sit well with me. I was vindicated years later by, on a whim really, to d/l Counter-Strike 1.5. That changed me. I played it all the time, played through 1.6, and I am still playing CS:Condition Zero to this day. Mostly because I found a great server, great people to play with (Which is VERY rare), and I don't plan on stopping.

Duke 3D, god damn that had some awesome multiplayer maps.. like the massive house and you're the size of an insect.

Starcraft. 13 years ago. Funny thing is, I still play it online.

Well, if we're including all forms of online gaming, I used to play a lot of Virtual Billiards with people on Pogo.com when I was 11 or 12.

The first console game I ever played online was Star Wars Battlefront. Good times.

MA7743W:
Runescape

haven't we all that was mine cause my friend told me to check it out

My first online game I ever played was the original Half life deathmatch. It was fun I suppose. However if I ever get the feeling to re-download it, I don't really see what I first saw in it.

CivNet

For me it was quake 2 (I was four at the time I started playing it)
Back then I was in the conservitive mindset when playing 1st person shooters as I don't think I ever used something besides the starting pistol in fear of wasting ammo...

Most of the time when I was playing on line (I forgot the name of the map)the map that I played had this deep lake at the out skirts with a tunnel leading to the bfg, several stair cases, an elevator leading to the highest platform ( the platform had agreanade launcher on it as well as a path to the rocket launcher near the lake),some wet bit underneath the main battle field with an smg spawning there(or was it a shot gun i forgot).

Years later when I was 8 I started playing Runescape when I was eight under the alias "Ordinary Bob"... But since everyone kept calling me "Bob" it made me upset so I went emo and cried "WHY DOES EVERYONE CALL ME BOB" "MY NAME IS RAPHAEL CANARIS NOT BOB"... when I was ten I spent most the time lanning and playing Starcraft and Diablo2 at an internet cafe (But since we had to start from scratch every time the name Blood Raven haunts me to this day) when I moved from Starcraft to Warcraft it was because my brother kept saying "BUT warcraft has 4 RACES"... The next game I played was Battle Field 1942's demo BUUUUT, the demo became so poppular due to mods that the server that supported the demo made it so you had to subscribe(I think it was called GameSpy)AND THERE WAS NO WAY I would pay 20 dollars a month just to play a demo. (Expensive bastards)...

BF2, really shitty game........ god i laugh at myself now

Diablo 1 I think, not entirely sure.

Played loads of TFC and Counterstrike (1.2C or something, I know the Colt Carabine could still zoom and the auto sniper rifles were not yet invented) over a 14.4K modem.

I remember switching to 56K and my ping dropping to below 200 for the first time ever. Oh how fluid the game suddenly ran in comparison. How I despised those buggers that whined about having 100+ ping, I shot the lot to pieces without fail. And now I can't even play decently with a ping of 70...

On LAN my earliest game was Warcraft 1.

Age of Empires over a crappy dial up, it was amazing

either diablo or age of empires.

I joined the party late... TF2.

I played LoRD (Legend of the Red Dragon) on BBS's somewhere around 1991. It was a fun game. Text based RPG where you could perform X amount of operations during one day, and then wait until tomorrow to do things again.
This was followed by Doom and Descent on serial cable (old school :)
First three player LAN game was with Command & Conquer, we got few cards and cable for coaxical network.
At this point I can't remember anymore details on newer games.

EDIT. There was at some point some games played with a dial-up. Some text games on old Nokia modem, something like 3400 baud. Later playing C&C on 14,4K modem

Counter-Strike.

I used to be such a n00b.

shadow_pirate22:
Starcraft. 13 years ago. Funny thing is, I still play it online.

This is quite an accomplishment, because Starcraft was released only 10 years ago.

VERY first was probably a tie between Diablo and Quake

Battle.net was a brand new concept back then, and Quake was always a pain to find good games on, you had to use a third party program like Gamespy, the posted game data like IP addresses, because everything was just TCP/IP back then (or IPX/LAN, if you were with a bunch of friends). The lag was horrendous because everyone was using dialup.

Online gaming kind of sucked back then.

Another major early Online game I played was a small MUD called "Darkover". There was never more then about 50 people playing the game (and I mean that there were 50 active people, rarely was there more then 20-30 on at any given time, usually there was 5-15), but we managed to have 3 major guilds, who actually competed with one another (I was in all 3 at some points of my playing), and for a while, we had RP Immortal Worship.

I was Dirkin, a gnome mage who remorted Faerie, and I worshipped Vash, the god of poetry and rhyme.

I don't even think that game runs anymore.. but I played it for 8 years.

mtk2a:
Warcraft 2 on a LAN.

Then, Diablo 1 on battle.net

If we're counting LAN/IPX, then Warcraft 2 for me as well. I was going by Online meaning on the internet

starcraft. elementary school.
yep. im a young-un.