Taught meself how to type and whatever. It was the late 90s and I was plodding away on my parents' Win95, not doing much on the internet (it was dialup anyway) except for looking at pictures of cute animals.
Then someone at school mentioned Neopets, and I looked it up. I was hooked, as little kids are.
Spent most of the time at gran's place though because her computer was better.

Also while I was too old for newsgroups, I did spend far too much time on IRC and roleplaying forums. Those were the days.
I do wish I'd have been born a few years earlier though so I could have gone on alt.sex.fetish.robots, since I have no idea where to find that stuff now, and believe me I've tried everything.

Sorry for the shit post.
(Avnas dosh!, Tue 27 Mar 2012, 7:37, 6 replies)

Remember
Usenet got absorbed into Google Groups;

groups.google.co.uk/groups?q=alt.sex.fetish.robots
( Ghoti Fingers, Tue 27 Mar 2012, 7:54, closed)

No, it diddn't.
Usenet is a still-existing network of peer-peer servers.
Google happens to provide an archive on their server, and a shitty web-front-end.

There are many other providers.

You might as well say that oranges got absorbed into sunny delight.
(speedevil, Tue 27 Mar 2012, 8:00, closed)

Or that yenc is better than uuencode.
*sorry*
It's mostly not p2p tho - most isp's have their own nntp servers - they just don't have the same retention as giganews, easynews etc.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Tue 27 Mar 2012, 8:33, closed)

NERDFIGHT!!!

(username failed moderation, Tue 27 Mar 2012, 8:34, closed)

You gonna get fragged.

(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Tue 27 Mar 2012, 8:37, closed)

I don't know if this helps
but we often post pictures of nudey/nerdy girls playing with (my) toy robots over at ileftmytoysout.tumblr.com NSFW due to boobs and things

/cyberpimp blog
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 27 Mar 2012, 9:33, closed)