I used to set up a download, go to work, come back, stillll downloading. NG was low impact back then, so I could still DL and cruise NG's vids and games. Then my cousins a half an hour South of me, got a cable connection... was definitely worth the trip, but it burned up a lot of writable CDs (and before that floppies).
VicariousE
:\ 1.023 MHz, a miracle of excitement. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_iic">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_iic</a>
So, c'mon, fess up! What did you dabble with in the long ago? BBC Micro?
BumFodder
Not that long ago actually compared to you, I started using computers when win 98 had just come out. I cant remember what my first computer was though, my memory is terrible. I do remember hating how slow dial up was though.