I was pretty young at the time, but I got in at the very tail end. There was a BBS for farmers called FBMInet that my parents were on. I don't remember much abo

I was pretty young at the time, but I got in at the very tail end. There was a BBS for farmers called FBMInet that my parents were on. I don't remember much about it (except that there were lots of pirated games). I still use the same password that I chose there for sites I don't care about. My first web access was via a BBS run by an organization called Edmonton Freenet. For a (very) small yearly fee you could dial in and use (amongst other things) lynx and pine. Very rustic, but considering that a decade or so before we were on a party line...