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Watching the birth of the general public internet that everyone has access to.
I remember the early 90s hearing people talk about it, then seeing signs of it in the mid 90s. We all thought it was going to make the world so much better for everything and everyone.
Then starting in the late 90s everyone was getting online and it just went crazy.
It was exciting to be around for the start of it all.
We got to live life without an internet and then all of sudden it was here and we couldn't live without it.
It was like being the generation that saw the first airplanes and commercial aviation becoming part of the world.
The what?
The internet ..... I've mentioned this before and whenever I suggest the internet started in the 90s, I get corrected that technically it was started in the 80s or even the 70s. I'm talking about the general internet that the public interacted with, the internet in the 90s that we all know and understand, the internet with cat memes and porn.