Before you actually got on the internet...
When your only exposure to the internet was hearing people pass the word around and seeing www and .com on billboards...
*What did you think the World Wide Web was?*
My very first hypothesis on this question, when I was around 7 years old, was something like a combination of Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, and Yahoo Answers.
In other words...
1. The largest encyclopaedia ever.
2. A digital library full of digital books.
3. A place where you can get instant answers from people all around the world.
Ah, and I also spent hours staring at screenshots of AOL 2.0 and MSN 1.0 and wondering "which is the larger internet?" Haha!
Well, the early internet (I first got on in 1998) didn't turn out to be as organised as I thought it'd be! It was random, haphazard, grass-roots... but also had much more variety than I expected!
So share your first baby thoughts on the internet!
2006-06-23
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Flo Chen
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