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Another thing I remember from the early 90s was internets with a little ‘i’. I could call a number with my modem and connect to a private system that wasn’t interconnected with the big Internet. These were typically bulletin board systems (BBS). An extension of the BBS concept was the online service, like CompuServe and AOL. Eventually these online services started functioning as internet gateways and that is when the real fun started. Prior to that the Internet was only available to government and academic users.
Yet another thing I remember from the 90s Internet was Church of the Subgenius. It was one of the first viral memes and when you read about it, you might just discover a thing or two about a thing or two.