I used tohave long conversations over talk with a friend/crush from high school who was up at Harvard, freshman year. He was homesick and few of his other friends had access to it.

First browser I used was a dev version of Mosaic, so that was what, 92? (Observatory was in a partnership with U. of Ill.)

I didn't get internet access until grad school, can't remember the exact date. I just remember that they installed ethernet cables in the uni housing and boom! There it was.

Blame? Why are cat pictures deserving of blame?

ahh BBS chat good times. webbroadcasting or something. ridiculous theme rooms or somesuch.

I think I was buying off ebay in 1995.

I got online in...91, I think? When I was at UT Austin. I spent way too much time on Usenet.

(When was the original Undocumented Features posted to rec.arts.anime?)

I was mostly unemployed and BAROQUE in 1994. By 1995 I was working at my sister's company and then I was getting online, checking in on boards that posted Highlander fanfic. My sister taught me how to use ftp. It was amazing. We could get huge documents from Germany just like *that*.

In just a few hours! 1200 baud modem, baby.

I remember gopher and ARCHIE, but not Veronica.

We got AOL in 1994 -- I remember because I mostly used it to email friends I'd just made at my summer camp that year. Also to post on listservs for fans of the Nields, Dar Williams, and Ani DiFranco.

It's weird at first, huh? Enjoy it, though!

Thanks! It's mostly weird how not-weird it feels, except when I think about Rose at home with M all day. (He doesn't go back to work until classes start in another couple of weeks.) Also, I think I will be going through my backlog of emails for at least a week. Yikes.

I never had an AOL email address! I had email through work and never needed anything else because the company was so small no one was spying on it. I think my first personal email was [myname]@yahoo which I still have.

I was on USENET in '87 or '88, but I don't think I grasped the enormity of what was going on--despite it being somewhere authors were hanging out, and stuff. Once I graduated, it got frustrating. Our AS/400 at work was on an all-IBM network, which...limited fun, but I did get nookie out of it. And when I came to the US in '93, I found FidoNet, and it was on, baby, ON. And then AOL/Prodigy/Juno/whatevs...that very special time where everyone had their own website with a guestbook, and then Friendster and...I can't believe there are kids on Tumblr younger than my Internet addiction. My Internet addiction can drink and vote.