[gabesk]

Middle schooler in the mid 90's, sitting in the backseat of the car while parents drove around town on errands. 2 meter ham radio antenna on the roof, with a packet radio modem and black and white power book laptop running off the cigarette lighter jack. The local university had a packet radio - UNIX gateway with which you got a shell prompt via something akin to telnet. Fond memories of wireless browing the web over lynx and talking to people on IRC before anyone I knew had a cellphone.

Also, the special treat of getting to go to the parent's lab from time to time and using this new fangled Netscape Navigator Beta on a blazing fast Macintosh II CI with more than 8 bit color! The fish cam was still one of the featured links on the browser homepage, and browsing NASA's site and being blown away at being able to see monitor-filling celestial objects in seconds.