I answered the poll based on when I started reading "ebooks" rather than when I started reading electronic fiction in general. That age would go back another, oh, a good eighteen years or so, to my university days when I discovered the Usenet newsgroups including groups like rec.arts.anime.creative and a number of other fanfiction groups in the alt hierarchy. I remember spending hours in the computer lab downloading and saving files en masse to floppy disk so that I could read them on my computer back in the dorm room.
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