"now reaching more than 2 million seats" Isn't that amazing? One of the most widely used telecommunication programs in the world at the time, every continent,

"now reaching more than 2 million seats" Isn't that amazing? One of the most widely used telecommunication programs in the world at the time, every continent, claiming some two million users. That number does not raise much of an eyebrow now, but it blew my mind. I first used the Internet in 1996-7 at the local public college. Netscape Navigator, on the Power Macintosh. I was only in middle school, but already interested in computers. One could stream video even then if you had the bandwidth. From NASA, from people with webcams pointing at their office parking lots. I was blown away. A multimedia world of millions of people. And mostly academics and some fellow geeks, back then. Being able to stream a video of repairs in orbit, from a computer in another country, on a machine I was already starting to learn to program myself, is a vivid memory. That experience changed me, and I got hooked online, for better and for worse.