I started with Win 3.1 technically, but had an older PC that was more like a word processsor (Type II something or other), and got to dismantal old hard drives the size of shoe boxes, and hung out in a basement with a guy who ran a dial up BBS with one of those 'set the rotary handset on the modem' modems... LOL
I also had free internet till 2000 cause I knew somebody who knew somebody who worked at a local non-profit internet service provider.
Life used to be so interesting.
Or people with priorities.