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.