I go even to more ancient times as well: BBS', AOL chat rooms,
  Usenet, green screen dumb terminals. I even remember...
  BEFORE.... One of the first real programs I wrote by myself was
  a typing tutor in BASIC. I'm a nerd4lyfe. smile emoticon I hate
  the fact that I could never get my fingers fast enough to get my
  thoughts out. I'm still this kid down there trying to figure
  out, "HOW CAN I do it better?] == You didn't miss anything.
  Usenet is a decentralized Facebook with immediate
  store-and-forward worldwide public message dispersion and any
  pictures or videos had to be encoded in ASCII first. I LOVED
  Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. She was the best smile emoticon
  _SHE_ is what made me get fast. == My mom WANTED to homeschool
  us, but I'm 43: a child in the ... 80s *sigh* - and
  homeschooling at the time was "just for wacko parents" and she
  couldn't get anywhere with it. It got more socially acceptable
  not long after that, but I survived by going to a tiny private
  school for high school. Public school is not suitable for
  humans. == But be not fooled: We're the Ancient Ones on the
  'net. We remember dialup.

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