A co-worker was getting rid of years worth of Science Fiction paperbacks. I scored about 500 books and only ended up with about 50 duplicates. I sold the collection 20 years later to some other luck Sci-Fi reader.

My old Yahoo account had emails from 98 or so, I had some AOL content starting in about 94 and Prodigy before that. Before that everything i did was on multiple BBS's and don't think any are still going, the last one i looked at was back in 2008 or so and they still had the BBS archives up on a web page.

I believe it is the inclusion of HFCS in just about everything which is known to be addictive.