Prior to 98 I could give two fukks about internet or computers in general.
A N64 and my power rangers action figures and I was set...didn't need nothing else to be entertained. All that changed when Toonami started playing DBZ in heavy rotation....And some of yall remember how it was a legit thing to print up Dragon Ball Z pictures off of search engines like ask jeeves. And for a while that's all the internet was for me, that place to get new dragon ball z pictures to print at home and bring to school to show off to my friends. And we'd all draw those pics during lunch and breaks.
I became heavy in internet usage in 2000 when I finally took my Dreamcast online to play Phantasy star online. And it was completely by accident since all I did was follow the prompts and enter that weird ass cable that's connected to the phone into the dreamcast....little did I know that shyt was charging the fukk out of our Ameritech phone bill
Mama beat my ass when that bill came in
But after we realized this shyt cost money we made compromises, basically if I did my chores and did basic good behavior shyt I could use the 56k lan modem for 1 hour a day.