How the internet looked to a possibly naïve journalist and entrepreneur in 1994.
[grey_box]This article was first published in the New York Times Magazine on 4 August 1992. How long ago was that? You will see that I needed to explain the following technical terms: CompuServe, icons, Wysiwyg, and smilies. There was (as far as most of the world knew) no Internet. Software was new. So were bugs.[/grey_box] I couldn’t wait to buy Microsoft Word for Windows — rumored to be...
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