I actually enjoyed the internet more back then, or well, slightly after. I think I first went online about 1998. There was something magical about being a 9 yea

I actually enjoyed the internet more back then, or well, slightly after. I think I first went online about 1998. There was something magical about being a 9 year old fledgling programmer communicating via UDP, port scanning and connecting to services, and generally seeing what was out there. I try to imagine it like space now. We're now looking out into space, seeing what is there. If in 1000 years we have it all mapped out and we just use Spoogle to locate something – "ore rich moon, ores:bauxite, distance:50LY" "1–243,123 results" – the fun of searching and discovering will be kind of lost.