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For me, my Dad brought home a laptop from work and we looked up pictures of pokemon and went to the Simpsons website, circa around 1999. How about you?

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[-] JCPhoenix@beehaw.org 4 points 8 months ago

It was around the mid/late 90s. Maybe around 96 or 97, so I would've been 9 or 10. We had a computer at home, and my brother and I played games on it, but we didn't have Internet. One day, my dad who works in IT, installed AOL and on our computer and paid for it. And he set up an account for me and showed me how to use it. And I was blown away. Eventually. even though I was a kid, I'd hang out in Star Trek chatrooms, created mailing lists for like a kids writers club, and ofc started playing online games. Eventually even had my own website on like GeoCities, handcrafted in HTML.

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