My first job was demo'ing VIC-20s at Macy's stores in the SF Bay Area when I was 13 (there was a group of us spread around to different malls). One of the featu

My first job was demo'ing VIC-20s at Macy's stores in the SF Bay Area when I was 13 (there was a group of us spread around to different malls). One of the features of the marketing package was to demonstrate CompuServe, The Source, and Dow Jones News Retrieval dialup services. After the summer gig ended, the accounts still worked and that's how I got online for the first time, before BBSes.