It's 1998, the middle of the dot-com boom. Portals are advertising on TV, web developers are fighting browser companies, Microsoft and Amazon are gaining power, and Netscape is going open source.
Way back in the early '90s I was using what passed for the internet. Email, Usenet, ftp sites and all text websites before they started embedding graphics. Browsers were very odd back then.
My ISP got all excited about the WWW and was incessantly emailing us encouraging this pretty arcane process that you would have to do in order to get Winsock on your computer and install Mosaic and all. When I looked into what it actually was, I was just confused and put off by it. I have usenet and ftp. What the fuck are you trying to sell me on? Fonts and graphics? On the internet? This looks stupid, I don’t want it.
I eventually had a job where there was a computer in my office that could do WWW. Literally all I can remember about it was the Rome lab snowball cam where you could look at a real-time image of their office and try to hit people with solid white circles (“snowballs”) that would get dynamically added to the image. I still was not impressed. In hindsight, I think I was onto something.
Way back in the early '90s I was using what passed for the internet. Email, Usenet, ftp sites and all text websites before they started embedding graphics. Browsers were very odd back then.
My ISP got all excited about the WWW and was incessantly emailing us encouraging this pretty arcane process that you would have to do in order to get Winsock on your computer and install Mosaic and all. When I looked into what it actually was, I was just confused and put off by it. I have usenet and ftp. What the fuck are you trying to sell me on? Fonts and graphics? On the internet? This looks stupid, I don’t want it.
I eventually had a job where there was a computer in my office that could do WWW. Literally all I can remember about it was the Rome lab snowball cam where you could look at a real-time image of their office and try to hit people with solid white circles (“snowballs”) that would get dynamically added to the image. I still was not impressed. In hindsight, I think I was onto something.