re: Spinoff thread: Gen Xers, when did you first see the Information Super Highway and...

I still remember the first time I was introduced to the internet. It was toward the end of my senior year in HS in 96. Had a computer class and the teacher hooked us up to checkers. I was amazed that I could play someone somewhere else in the world and even talk to them.

It didn't last long because whoever was on the other end quickly when he/she started telling us all to go frick ourselves/frick off etc etc etc Teacher said that sort of thing is one of the down sides of the internet. Trolls even existed then.