[Hellenion]

Where can I read more about this seemingly magical era? I'm so young that it sounds like a faerietale.

[jmduke]

It's hardly a canonical source, but very much on the 'seemingly magical' side of things -- there's a Twitter account devoted to crawling old boards and pages and tweeting interesting snippets.

https://twitter.com/wwwtxt

Incredibly wonderful -- and very surreal. It's bizarre to think that only twenty years ago, the Internet was an entirely different culture.

[dpapathanasiou]

In 1994, someone at Wired magazine (which was only in its 2nd year of existence) registered mcdonalds.com to see what would happen: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/mcdonalds_pr.html

[kordless]

Google 'NSF NSI contract 1993'. Ended up being worth North of $20B in about 7 years.