Thinking about the timeline I might have actually been younger than 12. This would have been the late 90's or early 00's so no one really knew what the internet was to be scared of it.

Interestingly I lost the internet at home sometime after that because we moved to an anchorage and my parents didn't want to pay for really slow dial up

I didn't get internet at home until I was 17 when we moved again. I had access to the internet at school and I used to go and hang out at the library where my mum worked and use their internet