[4] The youth rights movement first utilized the Internet in 1991,[citation needed] with the creation of the Y-Rights listserv mailing list.

Two members of that original Internet presence, Matthew Walcoff and Matt Herman, began a non-profit organization out of that mailing list known as ASFAR.

Not too long after ASFAR was founded, a Rockville, Maryland high school student began a youth rights group called YouthSpeak.

Walcoff, Herman, Hein, and Gilbert all met through ASFAR, and decided to start a non-profit corporation to help unify the youth rights movement, which at that point consisted of almost a dozen different groups around North America and the world.

[citation needed] In late March, Koroknay-Palicz and several NYRA members traveled to Vermont in support of a bill lowering the drinking age to 18.

[citation needed] From February to August 2006, President Adam King led a local campaign to add a nonvoting student adviser onto the Buncombe County (N.C.) Board of Education.