My computers have pretty much all always had some kind of telecomm function as their primary raison d'etre with gaming as a close second. From using dialup on my VIC-20, C64, 128, A500 and A1200 (and the first few PCs I had) through the various broadband connection types.
First got on the internet (via UUCP and newsgroups) in 1989, had a GEnie sub that I abused terribly back in the day...became co-sysop of a C-Net running BBS that had an "internet door", then used pseudo-SLIP on my first PC to brows the nascent web around 1995, which gave way to direct connection, etc. etc.
