I remember when a friend of mine in middle school fired up the first version of Mosaic on his mac. I could hardly even tell what the point of the application (

I remember when a friend of mine in middle school fired up the first version of Mosaic on his mac. I could hardly even tell what the point of the application (as they used to be called) was. He was also really into hypercard. We actually did a school project together in hypercard. I had really no idea at the time that such technologies would become so widespread and important. They initially seemed really arbitrary.