[burnto]

I was pretty young at the time, but I think it started as basically a BBS. With an Internet backbone so a bunch of local numbers could all access the same server. They added Internet access later, and initially only via their own browser.

[pests]

I admit I was a young child during the AOL-mailer-cd era. I don't really know what came before.

[brewtide]

3.5" floppies that you would put scotch tape over to save your homework assignments on, to show your prowess in hypercard on the Mac classic.