Good question! I don’t remember. I do remember finding the site for the first time at the public library around October 2000 after school and being amazed. I don’t think we even had dial-up at home yet, though we might have (we’d use BlueLight internet from KMart).

I also remember several sites (possibly this one too) being blocked by BESS, the school censoring software, and a few of my friends and I figuring out ways around it. I guess that was the start of my “hacking” (if you can call it that!)