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What was your first experience using the Internet? (leminal.space)

submitted 8 months ago by Flamangoman@leminal.space to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 3 points 8 months ago

Back in high school, I worked with a guy at the computer store who was a freshman at the university. He was very conservative, a Limbaugh fan, who had a "girlfriend back home" whom nobody ever saw. I didn't connect the dots until years later.

He never said or did anything inappropriate, but was solicitous, and he let me use his account on the university's VAX cluster. I used it to explore Gopher, read Usenet, and download software.