Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana (1995)

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Clifford Stoll never had any idea what he was talking about. Try reading The Cuckoo's Egg if you doubt it. Nobody who groked the internet denied its deeply transformative nature. The debate has always been about how far it would take us, how fast we would go, and whether the changes would be for better or worse.

1995 everything was far from obvious. Web was tiny back then and it didn't look good.

Web was tiny and unorganized.

You had mainly two things to bring order to chaos:

1) http://digital.altavista.com/. IIRC, no bookmarks in 1995, so I can still type it perfectly, had "some" practice back then. Talking about Altavista, I want my boolean logic searches back! Although some of my search queries were hundreds of characters long...

2) Of course Yahoo directory. For those who had trouble with boolean logic. :-)

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