zlacker

>>kjhugh+(OP)
We can all over estimate our intelligence. I remember clearly getting some email from a list, downloading some weird thing and trying it. I remember clearly deciding it was just total junk - it took me about 5 minutes - and I deleted it.

Of course this was Mosaic. And of course I was totally and completely wrong. Said he while using the Firefox web browser. And when was the last time I used telnet?

>>talkin+Cf
I wouldn’t judge myself so hard. You were reacting to what the web was back then. It’s pretty hard, perhaps impossible, to foresee what it would become.

I remember reading “you can go to the Louvre and then the MoMA, all with a click of the mouse”. But taking a plane felt almost as slow and expensive, only way more fun.

I deleted Netscape to claim back the 20MB or so it occupied in my 250MB drive.

>>tambou+Rk
I'm having trouble understanding this mindset. Was it being a contrarian techie against against the "information superhighway" hype at the time?

As someone who had used Prodigy since 1990 and began my CS program in fall of '94, I was extremely excited to get a much faster than 14.4k connection in my dorm room so I could use Mosaic at a proper speed. I seem to recall this was a universal feeling amongst other students in my class... like a "holy sh*t, I can't believe I have this level of access now".

>>branda+U02
Perhaps, I’m known to be curmudgeon from a tender age.

But I only really started to enjoy the Web with 33.6k and by 56k I was completely hooked. That’s my recollection at least.

I loved IRC and BBS, but the Web took a while. Mostly because it was so slow.