On Monday, November 25, 2019 at 10:15:12 PM UTC-5, Sebastian G wrote:   
   > Amazing! :D How did you find that old post?   
   > Sometimes I think, what if the web never advanced into what we have now,   
   > with all that animations, reactive websites and so on? I've to admit,   
   > when I first encountered the Internet, everything was already starting   
   > to become what it is now, no modems and not everything text-only. But I   
   > imagine it to be pretty cool back then, connecting via modem to another   
   > mailbox close to you... (For the info, I was born in 1997)   
      
   A lot of searching and pouring through groups. I remembered that I was on   
   Usenet in the mid-90s, so I started searching for my name in the groups.   
   Google Groups search function is lousy, though, so it only worked about   
   halfway. Eventually I found some    
   posts I made in alt.tv.animaniacs and I found the E-mail address I was posting   
   from at the time. Based on that I was able to search backwards until I found   
   this post.   
      
   And yeah, it was convoluted back then! I didn't have an ISP, so to get online   
   I had to dial a terminal server at my local university, then connect from   
   there to a UNIX system at another university, and from there to "Cybernet"   
   which was a free BBS that    
   had Usenet access. From there I started reading Usenet and made my first post   
   about a subject I was passionate about.   
      
   When other people started responding and I realized they loved this stuff as   
   much as me, it was then that I knew I found my "tribe," and here I am still a   
   furry 25 freaking years later.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)