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Ah yes! I could have specified, that after my introduction to the Internet researching papers for school, my real introduction to the Internet was irc, chatting with people way above my intellectual development. Germans, Australians, Moldovans (one that was decidedly westernized, I used to tease him), Chinese, from the Iberian Peninsula, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Canada, before it was so so liberalized, India, Portugal, Brazil, Mexico (but I also lived and worked among Mexicans and Puerto Ricans), and more where I didn't know their countries of origin. They introduced me to the undemonized/Western washed sides of communism and anarchy. Thanks for the fond recall.
I really didn't spend much time in liberated spaces online after the early aughts, until I came to .ml spaces. US almost erased/diluted them all, and I nearly forgot almost all the irc explorations.