We are gonna party like it's 1995!
Imagine the following....it is 1995 and you are sitting there in a computer lab, somewhere, out there on the fringe of the new digital frontier.
Your Unix workstation, with uptime of 59 days, and cycles to spare, is grinding away on compiling the source code for NCSA Mosaic 2.7. After a successful compile, you excitedly launch the application program and launch yourself out there, somewhere, into the vast, unindexed landscape of raw HTML markup.
You arrive at page after page of text formatted in crude, rudimentary fashion. Amidst the black text, and grey backgrounds, you follow as many blue links as you can, leaping from site to site! You are searching for something. Something that makes all the clicking and downloading worthwhile! Oh, the wonderous glory of HTTP!
The browser viewport, your lens on this brave, new world has so much to reveal! At last, almost anyone can publish! Long live the freedom of information, and remember to come back soon, because this page, like many others on the new World Wide Web is......