I was born in 1976. First computer that we connected to the internet was a Pentium 75. We bought a 14.4 baud modem from Costco for like $300. Before the internet came along, we had BBS (Bulletin Board Systems). That was basically a computer with several phone line modems that you dialed into. There you could chat with other BBS users and do fun stuff like play text games. After the internet came out, we used an ISP for the first time. The first internet was all text based. I only spent a few hours on it. Then about 6 months later there were graphics! I remember we upgraded our modem to 56k baud and boy was it ever faster! I remember finding porn sites with free pictures. I would setup like 6 of them to download and go out for a smoke. By the time I got back they would all be half downloaded. It sucked when someone would call and bump us off the internet, so most my internet surfing was from 10 pm to 6 am. I eventually started my first corporation called "Graphic Web Pages". I operated it out of my parents basement for a couple years. The first paid job I got was to build a porn site, that was a fun job! I made about $1,300 in two years, brutal. However, I knew that the internet was going to revolutionize humanity in huge ways. I knew the internet was going to allow humans to connect in conversation in ways we never before imagined. I knew email was going to be a preferred way to communicate. I knew all businesses were eventually going to have their own web sites. I knew a whole new structure to society would rise and change the world in fundamental ways. I knew that it was unstoppable and inevitable and I wanted to be a part of it. You know what reminds me of the early internet? Bitcoin. I feel the same way about bitcoin as I do the early internet, except Bitcoin is standing on the shoulders of the Internet which makes it the biggest technology tour de force humanity has ever created. Bitcoin technology will revolutionize how we exchange our goods with each other and will be the biggest re-distribution of wealth since the invention of the cotton ginny.