I remember the day very well .. I'd just gotten an SGI machine for work, and was one of the few who could run Mosaic "out of the box" without faffing around wit

I remember the day very well .. I'd just gotten an SGI machine for work, and was one of the few who could run Mosaic "out of the box" without faffing around with WinTrumpet and TCP/IP hacks and so on .. I recall the thought process that went "oh so this is just a fancy gopher, really, for transferring files without going through FTP or whatever.." straight to "oh, shit, it can preview images and I don't have to open them separately" .. to "this is the future, all computers sharing docs freely and easily to each other in a user-friendly way, which doesn't involve FTP or whatever.." It was such a great experience, there were orders placed in the office that day for a few more Indy's for the execs, since nobody sensible wanted a Mac in those days and Windows was just out of the question. Then, someone noticed that Mosaic was released for Linux too, and suddenly the Indy's weren't so hot but a 486 loaded with RAM would do .. the web truly transformed the hardware world as well as the online information society, too.