The #firsttime I saw #internet it was on a internship-fieldtrip to a #legal #library (wanted to be a lawyer then, 1995). So they showed us #LexisNexis (remembered as nexuslexus), it amazed me.
search all newspapers for any name? Was this the internet? Vivid memory. Even found my dad on there.

but on second thought, we were using AOL chat at home, and we had email. But we DIDNT have google search, right? we didn’t have browsers yet. Those came next, on CD discs to install for free via dialup phone connection.