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The 90’s, I met the web and was love. I could connect myself with people in the other side of the world, I was 30, one children, a job, my wife, and the bank that every 3 month wanted its money back. But all of this was nothing facing the web. Yes, there weren’t web sites, yet. It was only Internet, the first one was in 1991, august, and it was the CERN, the first web site was this. Its creator was Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, right him.
But the Web was not for all people like nowadays, only a few students and scholars and engineers could enter in that world. And the army, of course. We, the normal people, had BBS and Usenet, two places where I started to learn what a revolution was coming in the 80's. We exchanged our files and information using slow 33.6 kb/s or 56 kb/s modems. Downloading one mp3 was a long job. Internet was ICQ and mIRC, they weren’t a better place than today social platforms but we were much fewer people and it looked like if all knew all. I was connected to Internet in the night, and so did other guys in the UK and USA; with these ones was more difficult to chat in real time (when here is night, there is day and viceversa), there were only a few hours when both of us were connected at the same time. Information run on Usenet.
