I am an 84 baby! I don’t remember a whole lot about that time as I only had access at the library, but we did go a few times a week. Most of my time was spent on either Bolt talking about punk music and books or in chat rooms talking about Sliders, Star Trek, and science fiction. I was part of the initial push to renew MST3K way back in the day when online petitions were far less frequent. I remember building my first web page on Geocities and how everyone had a visitor tracker to compare how “popular” our websites were. It was a simple time with a lot less distraction.

I didn’t have a computer at home until I turned 18. When I finally did, I played a lot of Quake and hung out in some IRC channels. Again, talking about punk, scifi, and books.

Other than no longer having a Geocities page, my internet activities haven’t changed much over the last 30ish years. I still primarily talk about punk, Star Trek, science fiction, and books, now splashed with bunnies and plants lol

On the off chance that any of my old scifi channel chat room friends are out there, Pony says hi to Carly, Joe, and Drew.