Funny.. I was talking to this rather hot 21 year old on New Year's Eve about the internet, and he seemed to be under the impression that the internet was born with America Online in the early 90s. He seemed a bit shocked that I had internet access in 1980, and my first email address was jasunm@mta.edu.ca. Of course, at the time, the web was text only, most people would either just ftp or telnet to text-based D&D type games, and the usenet had about 50 groups. Modems would receive about as fast as you could read, and there was no real files to share anyway.

It was fun, though, and I kind of miss the early days of the internet when it really was a final frontier.