We used to go to the School Library in Chico to use the internet. We had fun if there was an unused terminal...

I watched the students working together in groups of five on one terminal... I wished that I was a college student studying computer science like they were... Then, years later my dream came true at Humboldt State University...

We used the site Michael's Cosmic Kitchen for song lyrics and chords... He had a lot of classic rock songs. We also used OLGA which was an ancient guitar sharing service from pre internet days... like "The Well" or "Prodigy". OLGA is an acronym that stands for On Line Guitar Archive. People would submit lyrics and chords in text-only form to a users group... The results of that Usenet News group was uploaded to a web page by archivists. I also used the college's Photoshop program to do abstract art..                                                                                                                                                                     
 It was an era when we had intermittent connection using AOL disks. We would use their free trial, end service and then they would send us another free trial... It was a game we played for about a year... using free trials, disconnecting and then being given another chance...

Read more of my autobiography at:
http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html