Yeah... that was how I found out about most of that stuff back then... I was doing that with Windows 2K and an early cable modem (like 5Mbps/512Kbps level)
Of course, that was before the company that it was through blew up a section of downtown. I know all about living on forums and chatrooms (I was a fixture in the SpyWareInfo room and board until they closed)
Michelangelo wrote a poem about how much he hated painting the Sistine Chapel...One translation of the poem he sent to his friend begins: I’ve already grown a goiter from this torture, hunched up here like a cat in Lombardy(or anywhere else where the stagnant water’s poison).
Something just dawned on me. You know how we went from two digit years to four digit years because of the Y2K bug? In like 9K years we'll have to go to 5 digit years to combat the problem again