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Pretty sure it was in middle school, so we are talking like 98-99. It was in the computer lab. Other kids were playing gerbils on the mac while I was surfing I think a world factbook site, I remember clicking on Japan because I was obsessed with catching DBZ on the morning cartoon blocks before toonami was a thing. Seeing girls in kimonos and the usual fluff about ancient honorable Nippon and Tokyo. What about you?

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[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

I went to a technical high school where you got to learn a trade and academics on alternating weeks. I went because one of the trade shops was computer programming/repair.

They gave us access to a dialup Internet server at University of Massachusetts, but it wasn't TCP/IP, it just dropped you into a purely text based Linux terminal. My first web access was using Lynx through that, but I can't remember what the first page I would have used. Probably Archie, since the only thing it was useful for(to me at least) at that point was finding files to download via gopher.