“In 1996, the Internet was the nascent World Wide Web, and AOL. Nothing else existed, therefore there was nothing to do.”

As a student who pretty much “lived online” in 1996, I’m left wondering what it was the occupied most of my waking hours… Oh yes! All those things that _weren’t_ AOL or the web!

Actually, I recall “wasting” a lot of time on the internet, and on the proprietary services, looking for info on PCs and software – to buy, to fix, etc.