@rose_alibi I did enjoy the game chatrooms (MUDs I guess) that AOL had, but my dad didn’t want to pay for AOL so I got the free hours to try it and that was it. Online games like Ultima were also out of the question. But building stuff was free and didn’t require parental consent!

@rose_alibi I lied to Geocities about my age because I was a few weeks too young for them to let me create an account. I later expanded to multiple free hosting sites because I ran out of room. I built hobby sites for myself, for friends, school clubs…and I don’t think my parents even knew about it, at least at first unless I mentioned it. My friends did the same thing, we were nerds