The author says you can't explain anything really new, and people have to experience it for themselves. I had an experience like the author talks about when I f

The author says you can't explain anything really new, and people have to experience it for themselves. I had an experience like the author talks about when I first "got" the web. I had read lots of stories about it, and a lot of people were excited by it, but I didn't really see its value. Then I went to a web demo day the local NPR station held in hall with a bunch of computers. I wandered around looking techy things I didn't understand, and then a public demo started. The guy typed in a url and hit return, and in a bit we were looking at the home page for an art museum in Moscow. "That's nice." I thought. Then he clicked on a link on the page, and we were looking at a painting at the museum. "That's nice," I thought, but I still was not very excited. But then he clicked on a link underneath the painting, and suddenly we were at a museum in Paris that had paintings by the same painter. "Oh my god," I thought, "the potentials for that are just limitless," and thought of a long list of amazing things you could use this for. And now I understood the web.