My crappy basement apartment with my two older brothers and 3 separate phone lines just for playing Ultima Online, then Everquesst.
I missed a phone interview with Sony Online Entertainment, because I was too busy playing Asheron’s Call to get off the dial-up connection. Having an unlimited access plan through my work really was bad. Especially when my job blocked every website based on my job searches because they wanted me to stay working the support line graveyard shift.
Heavy particulate smog cools the planet. Horrible for people, but has masked how bad CO2 has increased global heating.
As many places have cleaned up diesel fuel emissions, the heating has increased.
The US East coast pollution of the 1970’s was a major contribution to the drought in Ethiopia in the 80’s. Dense smog blocks ocean evaporation. Chinese heavy smog has been causing a lot of the drought conditions in the western US due to the same factors.
I find it amazing how each Continent causes changes in other Continents.