I remember seeing the World Wide Web for the first time in
1994. I had just started college, and was in a dungeon of a computer lab with a friend of mine (who I
happened to marry seven years later). He pulled up Lynx, an early text-based
browser, and showed me a page of text that physically resided on a remote
computer. We could visit the URLs that he knew, read the text available, and tab
between the underlined words to navigate to other pages of text – but that was
it. The whole experience was all together underwhelming. It wasn’t until I
discovered search engines that the Web really seemed to come alive.
