i picked up using my family's first computer pretty easily. then a year or so later we got dial-up, then a bit later i had salvaged a broken laptop from my dad's work. on that laptop i found agn.ph, which was (might still be? idk) a pokemon-centric image and story board. that led me to find art by zaush and gideon and some super pixely scanned copies of genus male magazine. i lurked the art and furaffinity alone for years and then finally actually tried to make friends in the fandom.