So I was doing a very narcissistic thing and looking up my name on google. I found a super early post to a grafitti board. This dates back to 1994. However, I know that I had a computer up and running on the internet at least in my junior year of high school -- 91-92. It is amazing to think that I've been living with the internet for over 10 years now.
When I first started working on IE, I jokingly told people that "this whole internet thing would blow over." Well, it did and it didn't.
Again, I'm answering Michael's posts up here -- it is probably better then sending him email or IMing him. If you want to collected related links, there are couple of ways to do it -- one is a system of pingbacks or trackback (which I haven't wrapped my head around yet) and the other is to look at your referrer logs [diveintomark.org].
Apparently, the great thing about standards is that there are so many.