Ah, memories. I got on a BBS through a local university (Bradley University) in 1994 on my first computer: a Performa 630CD, with a Global Village 14 Kbps mode

Ah, memories. I got on a BBS through a local university (Bradley University) in 1994 on my first computer: a Performa 630CD, with a Global Village 14 Kbps modem. If I recall, and I barely do, because I was in 4th grade, I got into it via a “gifted child” (ugh) outreach from the university. We got a floppy disk with ZTerm, a number to dial into, and a default password. That I somehow still remember. What did I do on there? I really don’t remember much, besides it had what I seem to recall as a web portal. In my memory, it had a predefined set of websites you could pull up, and it would scrape the HTML and return text and links. (Now that I type that, maybe it was just Lynx running on their server, but I swear there were more hoops to go through.) It felt like the future at the time, though it didn’t last long. We briefly joined Apple’s eWorld†, which very quickly went away, and then we were on to AOL. From a CD. Probably shrink-wrapped Macworld Magazine. I feel very old now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWorld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWorld