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The Last Summer Before The Internet

The Last Summer Before The Internet

A Look At What Life Was Like Before I Got Online

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Nick Rafter
Sep 06, 2022
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It was 24 years ago this week that I first heard the greeting you heard here.

It was at a Labor Day barbecue, very similar to the one my family had this past weekend, in the same yard amongst some of the same people, that my mother told her longtime best friend (and my kindergarten teacher) Patricia that we had secured a new phone line and modem to inst…

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