Don't apologize - reminiscing like this is awesome.
In 1996-1997, it was all about AOL. Dial up internet, wait 17 hours to get online, chat for 3 minutes ("a/s/l? cyber? you? me?"), then have screen freeze, lose connection, and then repeat this process again all night long.
I thought it was "revolutationary" when my area had more than one dial up number you could use to connect to the internet. I was like, "Oh, wow, this will be SOOO much faster now that I can just use this other line to dial up to the internet if the other line is busy." LOL