My first experience with the internet was when I joined EDS nearly 6 years ago. Prior to that I used to dial in to the old bulletin boards in the early 90s on an old Amstrad PPC640 (an early 'luggable' with a 5" b/w LCD screen, built in modem and no HD) using (IIRC) ProComm Plus which I got from the 5 1/4" floppy disk covermounted on a ShareWare Magazine