7 highlights from this amazing 1997 'Kids' Guide to the Internet'

"Now that I've gotten on the internet, I'd rather be on my computer than just about anything."

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Nostalgia can be a misleading, even dangerous, phenomenon. We're often predisposed to remember the good parts, while conveniently forgetting all the bad stuff. As historian Stephanie Coontz put it in a recent New York Times essay: "Memories, like witnesses, do not always tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth."

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Chris Gayomali is the science and technology editor for TheWeek.com. Previously, he was a tech reporter at TIME. His work has also appeared in Men's Journal, Esquire, and The Atlantic, among other places. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.