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I remember seeing the web for the first time in a command-line browser. I didn't realize at the time what was about to happen.

• Vivtek 13y ago
  Neither did anybody. I remember the first time I saw a URL on a truck and realizing the world had changed pretty thoroughly.
  • Create 13y ago
    Ferguson then conducted postdoctoral research at MIT while also consulting to the White House, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Department of Defense, and several U.S. and European high technology firms. From 1992–1994 Ferguson was an independent consultant, providing strategic consulting to the top managements of U.S. high technology firms including Apple Inc., Xerox, Motorola, and Texas Instruments. In 1994, Ferguson founded Vermeer Technologies, one of the earliest Internet software companies, with Randy Forgaard. Vermeer created the first visual website development tool, FrontPage. In early 1996, Ferguson sold Vermeer for $133 million to Microsoft,[6] which integrated FrontPage into Microsoft Office. High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars. W. W. Norton & Company. 1999. ISBN 978-1-58799-065-6.
• treetrouble 13y ago
  It seemed like a slick new iteration of Gopher with the capability of inline images (that no one really had yet)
  • Todd 13y ago
    Of course, the images came later, thanks to pmarca.
  • csixty4 13y ago
    That was my reaction, too. What's the big deal? It's just Gopher with graphics.
    • nickzoic 13y ago
      ... and a bit of LaTeX mixed in for good measure. It'll never catch on.
• walshemj 13y ago
  Back in 92/93 I found gopher and playing around on the ITU's gopher server found a link to the www via telnet.