Maybe I'm extrapolating from nothing here, but it's interesting to see that some of the ideas that shaped his career have been with him for a while. Most notab

Maybe I'm extrapolating from nothing here, but it's interesting to see that some of the ideas that shaped his career have been with him for a while. Most notable is his "The Web" applet, which is a sort of extremely elementary prototype of Facebook: http://web.archive.org/web/20021201160011/http://www.angelfire.com/ny/mez51/web.html http://web.archive.org/web/20021201160011/http://www.angelfi... Similarly, his remark on his drawing tool page: "The Internet has some effect on almost every person in the world. However, it is fairly uncommon for a person to have an effect on the Internet without going through the long and tedious process of creating a website" It seems like from very early on, Mark was interested about how to a) make the web a place for anyone to express themselves, and b) that would allow people to perpetuate their real life relationships. Again, I may be just reading too much into things here, but I feel that those are interesting thoughts. I wonder what links people would make between my teenage programming projects and my current work... :)