We Were Mostly Wrong: Looking back at 25 years on the web

We Were Mostly Wrong: Looking back at 25 years on the web
Martin Veitch, IDG Connect, 2016/08/25
My father was what they call a telephone pioneer and I guess I'm an internet pioneer. I wrote my first computer program in 1979 and was working for Texas Instruments by 1980. By 1991 I was studying for a PhD I would never get, playing in an internet multi-user dungeon (MUD), teaching critical thinking by telephone for Athabasca University, and playing with a thing called the Maximus BBS. More...