I played dail up Doom 2 with my down the street neighbor for hours on our old 14.4's, well we played for about an hour and spent about three on the phone trying to get the dern modems to talk to each other lol! We didn't have a dial up access number for our neighborhood for a good long while, we didn't even get compuserve...then again my parents neighborhood was the last place on earth to get DSL access too...

Trying to convince my parents that the internet could be used for useful things was just about the biggest pain in the butt. They finally got MSN dailup in 1996, I was happy cause it was the fastest around!

I was sssssoooo happy when DSL finally came to our area! Gah, disconnects really irritate the heck out of me!

My first computer was a good ol Comodore 64. The thing still works . I first learned how to program on the stupid thing, and got so addicted to the games that I now have a C64 emulator on my laptop lol. The first computer I managed to get "online" (Online games anyhow) was an old Packard Bell 386. That paperweight is going to be our firewal server on our home network eventually. Hey, Im not one for throwing out working hardware!