Mid 90s is NOT 99 breh. I was there. You making it seem as if the web was some mythical thing that only .4 percent had a part of. Like I said NYC/NJ was on the web, not just some nerd shyt, baggin bytches on AOL, posting in chat rooms, STILL going outside and YES internet battling was a thing. SOHH and other sites had forums dedicated to it.
I was around the live battles as well - shyt NYC/NJ compared to where you resided seems like a whole different world. We all used the web AND we socialized in the streets/school. No disrespect to you attended.
Often I see a lot of misinformation from my perspective, so I am just making note on how I lived it. That .4 percent shyt sounds like BS, unless you lived in a completly remote area during that time.
I'm not taking it as disrespect at all breh. I'm just saying you can pull up literally any site tracking internet data and traffic from back then and the numbers are low as fukk. Why do you think that is?
I get that you're speaking on your personal experiences but like dude above....that doesn't necessarily apply to the rest of the country or world. You don't seem to understand that
you are the odd man out here, not me. The average person didn't own a computer....wasn't on the 'net....and most people did not even know half the shyt you're talking about (chat rooms, message boards, internet battling, etc. ) existed in 1999. Or hell, even 2000.
I wasn't in NY. I was in Kansas City, Missouri which is roughly the same population as Miami. So it wasn't like I was out in the middle of nowhere. But again....using NY, the largest city in the U.S,. as an example of what was going is not accurate, at all.
Fred.