> Another huge surprise was that people would create so much good content for free. Can you imagine telling someone 15 years ago that the Web would have a free

> Another huge surprise was that people would create so much good content for free. Can you imagine telling someone 15 years ago that the Web would have a free repository of all human knowledge.. This wasn't too much of a leap for me. Microsoft Encarta shifted its information from CDs to the internet. And when you think about the whole premise of the internet, it was a tool for researches to share information. Remember all the university hosted sites packed with information? Now give all these people an easier place to publish their information while also reaching a wider audience. One of my favorite pages from this era is probably this tide chart by someone at University of Nevada, Reno: http://wolfweb.unr.edu/homepage/edc/tides/2016/sfgg_fr16.html http://wolfweb.unr.edu/homepage/edc/tides/2016/sfgg_fr16.htm... And Stanford CS guys publishing their outdoor excursions: http://theory.stanford.edu/~rvg/arroyo/ http://theory.stanford.edu/~rvg/arroyo/