It was THE YEAR 2000. (Y2K!) I would come home from school every day and watch TRL to see if Britney, Christina, *NSYNC, BSB, Eminem, or Korn would be #1. My favorite website was TRL by Sarah, where my pal Sarah would write commentary on TRL every night after the show aired.
Sometimes I'd miss TRL and wanna see what the countdown was before Sarah was able to post it. So I fired up AltaVista (seriously, we didn't even have Google back then) and found a lil website called Absolute TRL that had a message board where people would sometimes post the TRL countdown live as it happened.
I ended up being the admin of ATRL for 10 years from 2001 to 2011. And then I was gone! But I came back today to say goodbye to this old place.