Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.
I'm kind of calling for a - I'm not the only one - you know, a revolution of some kind where we try to take back the web or start something new because, you know, the dominant medium of our time is in a desperate state and it doesn't have to be like that.
I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course I felt that it did.
I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me.
Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.
Back in 1995, I saw an incredible wave coming. The Internet. I knew I needed to be a part of it no matter what I did.
Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
We were there at the beginning of the web 2.0.
This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.
For me, the early 2000s stood for this vast, magical, electronic cyber realm - a time when the internet was so infinite, mysterious, and under-explored.
The World Wide Web went from zero to millions of web pages in a few years. Many revolutions look irrelevant just before they change everything swiftly.
By the time I graduated college, I was sick of what was out there. I wanted to bring something new to the Internet.
