GROWING UP WITH the internet had its drawbacks.

1. Your first email address was probably something like cyberdivay2k@hotmail.com

…which you continued to use until you got a college one.

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2. The first question you asked everyone was ASL?

And sometimes you even answered like this. You gas ticket.

3. MSN messenger was a hive of regret

You signed out and back in to get people’s attention, admit it.

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4. Spending ages choosing the perfect font and colour for your text

Always magenta or blue, always comic sans, always completely unreadable.

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5. Faking being away so you didn’t have to talk to someone

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6. Habitually breaking the family PC with dodgy downloads from Limewire

All those Winamp files looked so safe though…

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And then everyone on MSN could see your eclectic music tastes.

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7. If your mam was on the phone, you’d resort to doing this on MS paint

… before printing it out and using up every scrap of ink in the process.

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8. Your Dogz were basically your life

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Or Neopets, if you had notions.

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9. And all your school projects were absolutely abused by Word Art

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