I have two early Internet memories: first, reading James Berardinelli's movie reviews on rec.arts.movie-reviews. (Amazingly, James is still going strong on his own website, at http://www.reelviews.net/.) The other memory is writing a column for the school paper on the first gulf war ('91), and interviewing students in Tel Aviv and Riyadh by e-mail. It took me weeks to convince my parents that this wouldn't somehow show up on a tuition bill: e-mailing half a world away sounded way more expensive than a phone call to those places (which would have cost hundreds of dollars back then).
Ah the days of USENET. sI remember fighting with admins to get certain groups added to our local server.
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Then of course the one URL that always sticks in my mind: sakebono.standford.edu