1992 or 93. It was fun, exciting, nothing like anything we've experienced before on a computer. You surfed the net back then. A lot of centred text and DIY desi

1992 or 93. It was fun, exciting, nothing like anything we've experienced before on a computer. You surfed the net back then. A lot of centred text and DIY design aesthetics. Text was king, animated GIFs were used for rotating skulls and flames, and e-books (text files really) like the Anarchist Cookbook were the thing to read. IRC was where we talked to each other. Email was magic. I printed every single email I received during my first year or so. There was no spam. At a certain point Internet Explorer was actually ok if you can believe it. But before that Netscape was king. Yahoo was where things where organised. It was the "index", The Directory. Search engines made the directory obsolete. Google made search engines obsolete. During our first session I asked my friend if he thinks anyone will ever make money off this thing. We both answered with a "naaah" and kept on "surfing". I think today is better in many ways (and less so in some), but it would take a lot to impress old me now, while back then it was all just gobsmacking awesome.