My First Experience of the InternetWe remember when this was all fields, and lived a furtive life of dial-up modems and dodgy newsgroups. Tell us about how you came to love the internets.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 11:56)
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When we went online in the 90s, pay per minute, I told the kids they could use it as much as they liked at offpeak times.BIG mistake. A phone bill for nearly £600 rolled up (this was about 1998!) which we soon found out had been run up by my 15 year-old son, spending every night all summer on it.
His father hit the roof but I just swallowed hard and said, well, I told them it was OK, so it's OK.
Soon after the next bill (for nearly £500) arrived, he'd turned 16 and come out to us. He seems to have been chatting online and getting advice on how to come out and handle parents!
Eleven hundred quid for your son's peace of mind? Steep, but worth every penny.
(, Thu 29 Mar 2012, 8:13, Reply)
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