I really got started using the regularly (i.e every free moment of my waking hours...) in 1993, TCZ, via a telnet portal on a local BBS, using an Atari - sigh, the good olde days... dial up, text only, i was oh so happy when i got a 24.4 to work on that on that old beast.... from '85 on i was using BBS's but didn't really get hooked on the internet as we know until after the social factor at TCZ took hold