[mildavw]

I downloaded and installed the first “browser” (what a weird name) to see what the hype about “hypertext” (sounds sci-fi!) was all about.

It was a page of text where some words were underlined and blue. And if you clicked on a blue word, it would jump you to a new page before you were even finished reading the first page!

I remember thinking how dumb that was and must be for people with short attention spans. Uninstall and move on. This WWW thing is going nowhere…

[indy]

Same here. It was just sending text across a network, how boring! Also the developers who worked on the Web were using scripting languages like Perl, not real languages that had to be compiled.

[mattl]

What browser was that?

[avaldes]

Mosaic I think.