I got on the 'Net in 1993. The Web was very "meh". A lot of tutorials on how to write HTML, very little useful content yet. IRC and Usenet were where the action was.

Wired Magazine famously agreed with you. Usenet was where it was at then.

Internet commercialization wasn't really on until 1994. Then anyone could get dial-up IP, they could put ads on their webpages, and etc.

I remember that. I had almost zero interest in www until geocities came along and then …it was something else to compose and publish a “website”

The whole thing was atrocious but at least introduced me to the concept.

In fact, I had to spend like three days downloading Netscape to try it out because I didn’t even have a graphical browser yet.