I was born in '83 as well but seemed to catch the tail end of it - definitely part of my formative years, with experiences like stumbling upon my first "sex cha

I was born in '83 as well but seemed to catch the tail end of it - definitely part of my formative years, with experiences like stumbling upon my first "sex chat bot" at age 11 or 12. BBS's were also my introduction to MUDs [multi-user domain/dungeon games] as well, though it was only once we got dialup internet at home did I find a copy of CircleMUD to then implement ideas I had for my own MUD I called Fallen Shadows - and where a small community of voluntary contributors to create rooms and mobs formed over a fairly short period; someone even made an awesome ASCII art login page spelling out Fallen Shadows in gothic-like style.