I'm a lifer online; I was online back in 1988, and immediately
  discovered BBS's (dialing up phone numbers and making friends
  from nearby towns) -plus PC-Link which was all the USA (it
  became AOL later) -* then went to Hampshire College in 1990 and
  got my first e-mail, exposed to IRC, chat rooms, and the whole
  community as it was as the time. Smaller but pretty much the
  same. Got totally wrapped up in it.* Spent all of my time at the
  computer lab.* Took greyhound buses to meet people with college
  money, got wrapped up in their problems even when I was supposed
  to be doing classwork; and I did this as much as I was totally
  involved with people's lives at the college itself, and my own
  life. But schoolwork?* Meh.* So yeah, school was too expensive
  anyway and I never finished it; not only blowing my mom's money
  but it took me years to pay my student loans back. But, it was
  an amazing experience just the same.* I don't regret much; I
  enjoyed the heck out of.* I just learned all the stuff they
  don't teach you in academia instead of the stuff they do (which
  I've all since learned from Wikipedia anyway :P )

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