"Dad, Of everything out there, it had to be a CNN website ๐ฃ"
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Does anyone remember Freenet? It was community dialup where as long as you had a modem you could dial in and use the Internet without your telecom being involved. Anyway I found my way to telnet talkers, which predated web browsers, and you had to telnet into a specific IP address to join a text based chat room. This was the earlier 1990s.
I don't remember, neither the first time I used a computer, I was born in the 2000's.
I was attending University in the mid 90s, where I had an account on the University mainframe, and access to a service called Gopher. Al Gore and his "Information Superhighway" showed up a couple of years later.
Similar, went to take your kid to work day with my dad sometime in the 90s. Looked at fractals and MC Escher art.
For me, it was a game called Brick Breaker or something like that. It was a flash game that you can still find on and play using Y8 Browser. I'll see if I can find and link it here.
Searching for random stuff on Yahoo with my friend when I was in 5th grade.