It's funny, I have been talking about this recently with some people. I remember a time before it, but I don't know how I'd live with out it now.
I would have been about 14 when I first started using a modem and logging on to BBS's like Nucleus here in Calgary with my friend at his house. Before actual webpages existed as many here have also shared. Logging on to chat and play online text games or perhaps get in a download or two. It was slow and cumbersome. Often crashed or the service got knocked out, or the lines would be full. Took all night just to get online sometimes. But it was so new and different. And of course offered the things that teenaged males want, lol.
BY the time I was 16 I remember actually browsing the web at school with the original Netscape and using search engines like Webcrawler.
Of course around that time there were the big 4 service companies. AOL, Yahoo, Prodigy, and Compuserve. My first e-mail account was with IBM when I was 17, I think.
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