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The owner of a site called zug dot com wrote a lengthy and hilarious essay on his treatment for an anal fissure. There were MS Paint illustrations of the procedure.
I was enthralled but also learned a lot about using humor to discuss situations that a person would otherwise be ashamed of.
being on prodigy chat and seeing people posting "LOL" and i was like, what is that
I bought an Internet connection and read from a computer magazine that I'm able to connect to an FTP server for downloading files. (I don't think I needed it for anything, I was just curious of the new technology.) I remember that when I connected to the server, it displayed instructions that one should use "cd x/y/z" to change to a subdirectory, instead of separate commands "cd x", "cd y", "cd z", to save network bandwidth.
I fondly remember spending hours and hours in the T-Online BTX, which looked something like this: https://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/btx-jubilaeum-so-sah-der-internet-vorlaeufer-aus-fotostrecke-34503.html
There was this chat "village" themed based around Asterix & Obelix. I think it was the first chat I ever used, so it was magical. My older sister would mostly chat, while I watched. I still remember her handle from back then: Gutemine.
We later found out the chat cost 5ct/min (or 5 Pfennig per minute?)
friv.com
Configuring my UUCP connection to provide my BBS users with « electronic mail ».
The dancing Spider-Man gif.
Going to an internet café, filling a CD-R to the brim with whatever I could fetch in 1 hour, and enjoying whatever I brought on my very offline home computer for the next week