I had entirely opposite experience. At 10, I was hanging around irc where folks made various adult jokes but were very friendly and helpful. Getting mod was a d

I had entirely opposite experience. At 10, I was hanging around irc where folks made various adult jokes but were very friendly and helpful. Getting mod was a dream! Also, I learned most of my shell-fu from irc. I also spent some time roaming around other generic channels but a lot of those were barren lands. It took me many years before my parents got tired of computer at home hype and just left it alone and I reined over it and installed linux and tried to figure out how to get around. There were days, when I would install windows, print some docs(or if printer went out of ink, wrote the docs by hand on my school notebooks), reinstalled linux, tried things until I got stuck. There were plenty other interesting things but I still cherish my irc days.