I was a Teenage Catfish
So. I'm old. In 1995 my family got AOL (America Online). I was 14. Now for those that didn't use AOL it was a weird early social media. You had email, and access to the internet, but it wasn't a web browser. They did their best to keep you inside the AOL hub, you could access the world wide web, but if you searched in AOL for news, it would give you AOL news hub. Another thing AOL was famous for was the chat rooms. Basically you entered a hub, and could chat with random people all over the world. You could choose chatrooms that were centered around your interests. My mother hung out in Civil War chatrooms (more on that at a later date) while I discovered FFRPG (Free Form Role Playing Games.) Basically DND without dice and all text based. The Red Dragon Inn (it had multipe rooms in case you didn't want to be in a popular one) was the one I remembered the most. The funny thing was I was not "trained" as a roleplayer, I was pretty terrible at it. It wasn't un...
