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  1. I remember being shown some kind of bulletin board discussion on wicca. People were claiming to be able to turn street lights on and off by force of will. I told my friend, “I’m a bus driver. I don’t need a two thousand dollar computer to talk to crazy people.” I think that might have been around 1990. I first went on line around 1994. I was in a Sears store playing with a net tv device. Remember those? I managed to find IU’s web site and from there I found the school of library science. Jim Hurd was in the school of Library Science at the time and I knew he’d been given an assignment to create a web site. I found it and found a picture of ME he had posted. There I was on the big screen at Sears. For a second I felt famous. I decided I was going to have to buy myself a computer. It took a couple of years. God, computers were really expensive back then. I bought an IBM thinkpad with a one gigabyte hard drive and a CDROM drive. It was state of the art and cost around $1,500. The internet has been costing me money ever since.

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