I had a Commodore 64 computer back in 1984 but it wasn't until 1996 that I got on the web... my office finally got us computers (instead of the dummy terminals we had) and I bought my first REAL computer for home. The Windows 95 got me online and I spent the next week playing online.... it took me a day to figure out how to interact in a chat room.... I kept forgetting the mouse and would try to move the cursor by touching the monitor screen.

It was late '96 when I happened across a website dedicated to "The Godfather". It would be another year or so before I started hanging out on its message board, and I've been here ever since.