[ramonesfreak]

My first computer was a Commodore 64 that my dad got me in 82. I was 10. I loved it. I remember getting a “copy disc” that was used to bootleg games from your friends. Getting games for free was so exciting. The games were so slow to load but it felt so much better than the Atari 2600. I still have the Atari and all my games. The kids today have no idea how good they have it.

We also had Compuserve with a modem but there was nothing for a kid to do with it.

Then in 1990 in college I had a class where the professor had fallen off his roof and lost his hearing and most of his sight so he conducted the entire course online via the school’s intranet and email. This was a big deal and the start of computers being a daily part of my life outside of gaming.

In 1991 I discovered phish.net and for the first time experienced using a computer for something of interest to me, other than games, that wasn’t a school project or school work. Way ahead of their time that band….being able to read concert reviews, setlists, and print guitar tablature was very exciting but slow. Everything was so slow. You would have to go make a pot of tea while the page was loading.