Remember the days when “going online” required some element of work your part? When you had to actually drive to a library, or a university, and have someone help you with the Telnet system? You know the one, with the black screen and clunky green type, the baby web before it had pictures? It was kind of like looking at the matrix, but slower, and with a louder modem.

Then in 1994 Netscape came out, and OMG – the background of the page was white! With black or (as was the case too many times) multi-colored text! You could actually read the page! And now there’s Internet Explorer too? Do we really need two of these magical programs?

Then came pictures. Holy crap, look at that, there’s a picture right there on my screen, put there by someone in another part of the country. Or it could be from the other side of the world, displayed right there in all its 64-color, grossly pixelated glory. But remember, you may want to turn off the images so the page loads more quickly – you don’t want to sit on the internet all day!
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