It's amazing really when you think about it. I began in 1987 with using a 300 baud modem (very very slow) and no such thing as web browswers and websites...very unfriendly text based stuff...email, listservs and the like. Computers with one meg of RAM were a big deal so not much potential for fancy things. In those days it was mainly the university networks such as "bitnet" and local BBS's (Bulletin Board Services). Services with "menus" (rather than having to know a lot of arcane commands) were a godsend.
I remember being introduced to the web browser "Mosaic" while I was seconded to the Ministry of Education to help teachers understand how to use this technology and thought, WOW! but never imagined it would lead to where we currently are. BTW, those were the days when there was NO commercial content or selling was allowed on the Web. That came around the mid 90's as I recall and a lot of people thought the sky would fall in.
Web reaches new milestone: 100 million sites - CNN.com
