I dialed into the local university’s phone bank and could access fun stuff like… Kermit and Gopher. It was cool in the sense that I could read words in someone else’s computer, but content was really sparse, so mostly I hit the outbound network in another city to but porn BBSs that weren’t local calls for me.

Eventually I discovered IRC and trivia. And then they invented WWW and DSL and it started to explode.

And now it’s all commercialized garbage. I wonder if the internet would’ve held so much fascination for me if I’d known it would become a tool to view constant advertisements like a brainwash machine in Clockwork Orange.