How soon after the introduction of the World Wide Web on April 30, 1993, did you begin using it?

I assume the OP chose April 30, 1993 because that's the day CERN made the World Wide Web technology public domain. As many of other answers here mention, 

While technology behind the World Wide Web is important, it is only important to note that many geeks were "online" for many years before the WWW went public.  The world of the BBS  (Computerized Bulletin Board Systems) started in 1978. Like many geeks with computers in the early 1980s I discovered this really cool concept of sharing information with people by connecting a personal computer to phone lines.

In the late 1980s I discovered CompuServe, a dial up service that connected you to an online portal of services and a community of special interest groups.

The turning point for me was in 1990 when I read the book "Dvorak's Guide to PC Telecommunications." I was a thick as a New York phone book, and had two floppy disks of programs. I studied radio and telephone communications in the 1970s, began working on microcomputers in the early 1980s, so when I read "Dvorak's Guide to PC Telecommunications" I saw all the possibilities. 

I was really excited.  I wrote my first article for a regional business journal on how the average business could use Computerized Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) as a tool for customer service back in 1990. Probably my friends thought I was a bit "out there."


When the individual online services went from private networks to internet connected, there was little noticeable different in the look and feel of the interfaces we used to connect. Initially the biggest difference was that people using one online service could directly email people on another online service as the private addresses became internet addresses. Over time the content of the private networks was moved to the internet.