I was reminiscing today about my first experiences with the Internet. Flashback to 1995 and I'm sitting in front of my first IBM PC with two (count em) floppy disk drives. The internet tends to look like "Pong", the first computer game under a glass table at a pizza joint. Shall we say "highly pixilated"? Compuserve was big and so was Netscape and AOL. Colors on my huge, blocky monitor were highly limited, maybe 256? I went out cautiously tip toeing from URL to URL, afraid of falling into the digital black hole. Once I got used to it I was bouncing from website to website like a gazelle - and then a wakeup call. I got my AOL bill and it had tripled. That's when my wife started thinking of my computer and the Internet as the "other" women in my life.

Things have changed so drastically in the past 17 years - it is literally mind-boggling, and we'll probably have the same radical jump in the next 5 years or less. Eventually we'll have a microscopic computer plugged into our scalp or life sized halographic, interractive theater going on in our living rooms. Sounds like fun to me. Ray Bradbury was right on track....:)