The year was 1995. I was working at FlexNet, a local ISP in The Woodlands (a northern suburb of Houston), as a tech support jockey and hack programmer. It was a small company, maybe 10 employees, and was owned by two old business partners who didn’t know much about the Internet but had other successful ventures in insurance and real estate. This was a great time to be involved with the Internet–it was still raw and rough around the edges but compared to today it was “pure”. The Internet still felt like an exclusive destination; something you could do that other people couldn’t. I still fondly remember the looks I used to get when I told other people, disconnected people, about the Internet–one part pity and two parts disgust.
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