It was through the webring that I met Angelica.Īngelica hosted a Wiccan geocities or tripod homepage that I found particularly alluring. Pages on spell books, goth babes, the occult, dark art, and a gross-out page or two. I linked it to the DarkNet webring, where all the best “dark” websites and homepages came together.
I was so interested in the paranormal, I built a Fortunecity free homepage all about the occult and The X-Files. I was interested in naked celebrities and the paranormal back then.
I could type it into good ol’ Lycos, one of many pre-Google search engines, and there it would be. Because I knew I had anything at my fingertips. I mean, the first time I did it without supervision. Or later, when songs took 30 minutes to download and full-length movies were almost impossible to find, because no-one’s hard drive could hold them.įirst getting online was super exciting. When you could only find Gillian Anderson’s picture in magazines. When you had to leaf through an encyclopedia set to find an answer. But at least I remember what it was like when it wasn’t there. And still the internet feels like “the new thing.” I used to take it for granted, like we all do. Sometimes I find it hard to believe that I’ve been an internet user for twenty years now.
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