When i was in middle school i had started living in the first house my mom actually owned and she eventually got a home computer to make us feel less like a 'lower-middle class single parent family' and more like a 'middle-middle class single parent family'.
It was the one of them first run of imacs....the candy colored blobs with screens. The internet was also signed up to and loserdom was at my fingertips!
At school we happened to have a pretty progressive computer class.... progressive for a heavily overcrowded, 60% black/30% spanish (i was 'other'), public school. It had pentium 2's with internets and hell the class even had a laserdisc player!
The class wasnt much more than teaching typing......and given some students had a hard time reading the teacher had his hands full. Meanwhile the kids who knew how to work the crazy compooters went straight to the internets. One such kid sat beside me and elbowed me to check out something. It was Britney Spears Truck Jump!!! Oh the laughs and astonishment i had at this marvel of the new age! I took note of the web address and waited till i was home to see what else this wonderland had for me.

10 years later (give or take)...