January 31st 2003 @ 12:49pm EST .. what were you doing?

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Given that that was a Friday, and I lived in the EST time-zone, I was probably eating lunch at school or just getting back to class from lunch at school. I was in third grade and nine years old.

Game-wise, I remember looking up details about Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire on Serebii.net when it released in Japan on my dial-up internet connection (which our household had a second phone-line for + free AOL subscription.) I had just gotten a Dell Dimension 2300 as a combo Christmas/birthday present a few months prior and the internet was mostly brand new to me (outside of using it very rarely at school.) I didn't get to play Pokemon Sapphire until my birthday in October of 2003 even though it released earlier, but was very hyped for it. I also remember playing flash games on various cartoon websites at the time.