We have had a PC since '97.it was in the lounge in full view of everyone.With two teenagers and me time had to be rationed so that everyone got a turn without interfering with homework,sleep and a social life.Therefore I got the lions share of the time
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We got connected in '99 and I had to be even firmer about timesharing.
However as the only real alternatives for my two was to hang around street corners(they hated the youth club and rebelled against Guides and Scouts) or spend a small fortune going to the nearest town to just hang around on street corners as they pulled our cinema down,the ice rink/swimming pool were very inaccessible(two bus journeys) and we had no where else for two underage teenagers with no physical interests to go apart from the local playground I guess staying at home to read/listen to music/play PC games/watch tv/go online were much better and safer at the time.