@ariherzog Thanks for asking. I have some stories... but none as dramatic as that!
I'm also maybe 15-20 years younger (though my picture may not show that! 
) in that I got involved with the Internet (and before that BITNET) in the mid- to late 1980s at the University of NH.
Being only born in 1967, I was not part of the late 1960s / early 1970s group that was involved with the ARPANET.
By the time UNH was connected, it was well into the "Internet" era. They were fascinating times, though!