Happy 10 yr anniversary, WWW!
One small dial-up for man. ANDRƒS MARTINEZ. L.A. Times, July 21, 2005.
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Do you remember your first time? I can picture mine vividly, as if it were yesterday.
I was sitting at my desk in my study in Pittsburgh, having carefully followed all the instructions. It felt like a scene out of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” I didn’t really know if we were going to make contact. I heard the chirpy dialing sounds, the beeps and then that melodious, sustained sound of static.
“I think we’re on, honey,” I yelled at my wife, who was in the other room. We were indeed online, at last, on what was then called the information superhighway.