This is a bit how the Internet and the early web felt to me as a teenager in the mid 90s. When most people in my high school could barely turn a computer on, I

This is a bit how the Internet and the early web felt to me as a teenager in the mid 90s. When most people in my high school could barely turn a computer on, I felt like a wizard who knew about an entire secret world, and it was awesome. I could dial into my local mom and pop ISP and be playing a MUD with people from three different continents at the same time. I think in those days I had more online friends from MUDs, IRCs and talkers than I did in "RL." Or just surfing to random servers and seeing what was out there. In a time before Google indexed damn near everything, a lot of the Internet was just exploration and finding random, crazy or awesome things. One night I found a page from a professor at Purdue about lighting grills on fire with liquid oxygen. Thankfully, my parents were good sports about all this and eventually got a second phone line installed. Probably because they got tired of me always tying up our main line with an Internet connection.