Pretty sure it was in middle school, so we are talking like 98-99. It was in the computer lab. Other kids were playing gerbils on the mac while I was surfing I think a world factbook site, I remember clicking on Japan because I was obsessed with catching DBZ on the morning cartoon blocks before toonami was a thing. Seeing girls in kimonos and the usual fluff about ancient honorable Nippon and Tokyo. What about you?
Probably about the same, '97-'98. We’d gotten a PC in maybe '92 or '93, a 486SX-33 with a whopping 4MB of RAM. My primary school was still stuck on BBC micros, and our C64 had long been given away, so my parents shelled out for a new machine for me for high school and of course I instantly started trading games with all the other nerds, spending my allowance on gaming magazines, playing coverdisk demos, buying shareware disks from the local newsagent. We started hearing about this “internet” thing in about '96, so my father eventually took me to this “intro to the internet” seminar, and at the end there was a single PC hooked up via dialup that we could fool around on. When it was my turn I went to the only website I could remember off the top of my head, the local gaming magazine, Hyper.
Preserved on archive.org, and magazine scans here.
Oh nice. My gaming magazine at that time was gamefan