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?

    • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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      9 months ago

      very academic. it was largely only nerds/computer geeks that could cobble the hardware together to get online, or were maybe interfacing with the local college. i used kermit to upload my homework.

      that said, first porn downloads were from these BBSs which were like little mini local AOLs… provided ‘email’, chat and some gaming