I clearly remember when I first saw the www, a few years into its life, at a meeting in the Mac users group my dad was a part of, probably at a university depar

I clearly remember when I first saw the www, a few years into its life, at a meeting in the Mac users group my dad was a part of, probably at a university department or similar that had internet access. I thought it was one of the dullest things I'd ever seen anyone do with a computer, and I didn't at all understand what was so interesting about this Netscape programme. I must have been about ten. I did grow to find it exciting for a few a years, my misspent youth on instant messenger and bulletin boards, learning, flamewars and a few friendships that last to this days... but as I approach 40 and the damn thing has both turned into my full-time job, and become corporate shadow of its old self, something out of a bad old depressing cyperpunk novel, I do sometimes think my initial reaction was closer to the right one.