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Originally Posted by Rain Man
The birth of the internet is an interesting topic. I'm trying to recall my first interactions and what I thought. I remember seeing the first television commercial that showed a website, and it was my first sign that the Internet was mainstreaming.
I worked at a small company back in the mid-90s. One of my coworkers spoke at a staff meeting about the Internet, and it didn't wow anybody. I remember that his main discussion topic was that you could look stuff up, and if a word was underlined you could click on it and go to a different document about that word. There was nothing interactive at that point, so it didn't seem like a big deal.
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My friend came over one night with his mac when the internet was just usenet. We spent all night screwing around on various boards, arguing with people. I saw the value of it even then.
Then later another friend got AOL in the early early WWW days, but we all had email by now. We a) looked at a lot of porn and b) settled a bet about whether an elephant really killed a zoo keeper with an explosive bowel movement. The internet (in some pre-snopes thing) confirmed this was a hoax. I was like holy shit the internet can settle all bets instantly, and even prove a negative. Immediately saw how amazing it was.