Willing to share your oldest memory of the "internet"?

[Backseat Driver]

18. I graduated from Zork on a Commodore64

to a PC in the summer of 1994 loaded with Windows 3.1. We dialed up to a local Billboard and texted an on-going on-line fiction called the Perils of Pauline, each one contributing the next paragraph of the story - it was creative and hilarious as we also discussed the future and what we'd discovered. AOL gave us the internet and Netscape first revealed to me the human genome project site. From that point on, I was enthralled hook, line and sinker. We got a second phone line during the browser wars, using all the big-name providers who passed out their software like free candy. I learned DOS commands, lol, and taught the kids to go on-line. I used a typewriter at work, but I brought my old PC to the office and taught my boss, skeptical yet an eager student, about web sites, wrote content for his page, and how to use e-mail until he was proficient in his own discovery of what the technology could offer--hah, quick study he was! The technology advanced so so fast, but the good it could serve was quickly matched and "bettered" by those who would do evil, to steal, and to influence. I am still amazed at how the digital revolution has changed communications, sales and marketing, education, and entertainment forever.