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Sometimes I find it hard to believe that I've been an internet user for 20 years now.

That's older than some of my coworkers. It's over half my life.

And still, the internet feels like the new thing.

I used to take it for granted, like we all do. But at least I remember what it was like when it wasn't there.

When you had to leave through an encyclopedia set to find an answer.

When you could only find Jillian Anderson's picture in magazines, or later when songs took 30 minutes to download,

and full-length movies were almost impossible to find because no one's hard drive could

hold them.

First getting online was super exciting.

I mean, the first time I did it without supervision, because I knew I had anything at my

fingertips. I could type it into good old Likos and one of many

pre- google search engines and there it would be. I was

only 13, give me a break.

I was so interested in the paranormal.

I built a Fortune City free home page all about the occult and the X files.

I linked it to the Darknet web ring where all the best dark websites and home pages came

together.

Pages on spellbooks, goth babes, the occult, dark art, and a gross out page or two.

It was through the web ring that I met Angelica.

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