If I recall correctly, I got started with CompuServe back in the early 1980's. There were a couple local BBS's I checked into every few days or so but I'll have to look at my old notes to remember more about them. They weren't just porn, they offered plenty of other good info including some technical/science stuff at/from government and university sources. The first image organizer I tried was CompuShow and I went through a few versions of that before the "built in" stuff prevailed. Right from the get-go I hated AOL and still do, so I immediately bailed out of the early free subscription I had, although I wouldn't be surprised if they still had me as an active account, now over 20 years later.
While back then I frequently played Pong on the early consoles found in a lot of bars...and I was local champ...the first PC game I ever got into was DOOM, like in the early 1990's.
Now adays the "newsgroup" environment sort of reminds me of the old BBS's.
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