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I first encountered the WWW in the fall of 93. At first I was extremely confused, although Mosaic provided pulldowns for things like usenet and gopher, so I jus
by jghn 10y ago
I first encountered the WWW in the fall of 93. At first I was extremely confused, although Mosaic provided pulldowns for things like usenet and gopher, so I just assumed it was a GUI tool for that stuff.
By the end of that year of school I was recording & visiting every URL I encountered, regardless of what it was. They were that novel. By the time the next school year started it was getting increasingly difficult to do that, I gave up some point in that Fall 94 semester.
Sadly I was pretty adamant that the whole web thing was never going to take off and would be short lived. I suppose I got that one wrong.
- ci5er 10y agoI was fund-raising for a metered content play (DRM, I guess we'd call it now) in the fall of 94. You wouldn't have to pay tens of thousands of dollars for data subscriptions on CD-ROMS, you could buy an article for $10 or $100 at a time. And, who knows? In the future - when this Internet thing takes off - and distribution is "free" - maybe people will pay a nickel to listen to a song they copied from their friend! All I got back was: "What's the Internet?" This was about a year after I left Motorola, for failing to be able to sell them on how content distribution between portable super-computers with built in wireless data modems was going to change the world. sigh. Oh, well. I guess they paid the price for their lack of vision! :-)