#deskmate - looked better than #windows - it had colors!

   *It's perfectly Safe, Mom, we met online first! - Ken, 1990*

   And there's #pclink - an online service you've never heard of.
   It became #AmericaOnline or #AOL 1993: The #year the #Internet
   went public.

   Thanks to these guys.

   Without them... well, the Internet would most likely still be
   only something that kids that went to #college ever got to use,
   which is what it was before that.

   Ran up so many bills. I called friends from around the world
   that I met in #chatrooms on there and we'd talk for hours and
   hours about... nothing.

   Got on a few #greyhound buses too. My poor mom. ''You don't know
   these people!'' - ''But Mom, we met online! It's safe!''

   And it always worked out, so I can't complain.