1983. I got a Commodore 64 for my birthday. I had been saving up for an Apple IIe by mowing lawns, selling greeting cards, recycling paper and bottles etc. Well, getting a computer for free and being a 13 year old with $1400 in a shoebox was dangerous. I got a disk drive, a 9pin printer, some software and a vicmodem. The Vicmodem came with 40 hours of free compuserve. I logged on as Captain_Snoopy and started my adventure. I was a compuserve member all the way until about 1998. Anyway, I remember being on a bulletin board with one other guy from Queens and he was my age. We used to talk about strange things.