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In 1996 I got online for the first time with dial up, it creeped my mother out "why do people talk to each other over the computer why can't they use the phone?" lol

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I think it creeped my parents out when I, at 14, had the sysop from one of the local BBSs come to my house to pick up cash for access.

Heh. "Son, explain to me why you need to drive you over to this older man's house with a boxful of floppies?" "It's for school, Dad!"

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