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

[tonedevil]

45. There were the Bulletin Board Systems...

and I had an IBM 8088 that was several years old in 1991 when I was dipping my toes in. The school where my youngest daughter was going at the time had portable buildings in the yard and her class was in one of them. At parents night the teacher pointed out there was a computer lab in the room behind his that had lay dormant for nearly two years. I volunteered to try to get it going, mind you my experience amounted to having learned about computers taking accounting classes at Healed and assisting with the install of a Novel network for a company where I worked as a temp.
About that time I had first encountered TCP/IP and got an idea that was why the computers would turn on, but not be very functional once on. Turned out some of the boot disks must have been lost so someone copied some new ones. The problem was they each was supposed to have a unique address, not as it turned out an IP address, and the copied floppies all had the same address. When I fixed that the lab was functional and the teacher was able to teach the kids computer fundamentals.
During that time California State University of California was giving elementary school teachers logins to their system. The CSU system was like a BBS on steroids. The teacher let me piggy back on his account and it was off to the races for me. When I first got on there was Veronica, a Gopher collection that allowed me to pull down all sorts of files. There was also Telnet which allowed one to use a remote computer and FTP which was again more file downloads. After I had been in this play ground they opened up a brand new menu option, WWW. I used the famed Lynx browser and piloted the internet like a fish newly introduced to water.
Since those heady days I have gotten much deeper and have been working as an IT professional since 1994. It is hard to even remember what the world was like before computers took it all over.