[Maru]

11 or so. I accessed it in our school lab and I used it to search videogames, my main passion. Then eventually game hints, in particularly, for a game called "Wild Arms". Particularly the silly password in the library that left me stuck for ages. I do not think I would've ever figured that out on my end, but I think I'll look it up again soon with a nearly 40 year old brain and see if I could figure it out now... We didn't have game guides before all that except for magazines, but I was a very heavy magazine reader. So the internet expanded my access to media I love and the culture around that, which I really appreciated...

Fun fact: Before we got access at home, I used to take floppies in so I could download large files from the school's T1 connection. Except I had to tell Winzip to split these files so that I could put them across multiple floppies (1.44mb each). A few Sailor Moon videos, some DOS emulators and other goodies may have made their way onto an internet-less 486 laptop at home. Aah MIDI.