It was fall of 1994 when I got my first email address and nobody understood what the hell I was talking about or why I'd need such a thing--except for my boyfriend at CMU (figures!). Pictures on web pages were a novelty and there was this amazing browser called Gopher which allowed hyperlinks and didn't require unix promps or pine to show you content. "Pages" before Gopher consisted of green text without line breaks against a black background.

Back then you had to "code" HTML by hand and nobody really the difference between code and mark-up. I did all my mark-up on text files and ftped them with line command prompts via pine.

That's when I became a certifiable computer geek and stopped getting laid. No wait, engineers still dug me because they thought it was amazing a GIRL could code. I used to charge $50/hr. for mark-up since it was such an esoteric skill...those were the days.