For folks (like me) who block boosts, here is a very good story of how I too experienced the internet in the mid-1990s.
Quote:
"I was asked by a 20 year younger friend how my internet was back then. I needed a moment but then I told her the story of an IRC channel and how we made the day for a young girl who happened to be on our IRC channel. Because this is what my internet was like back then and I wish sometimes it still was like this. [...]"