[Osiris]

One of the reasons that this article may have wrong about the success of the Internet is that he was judging the Internet based on its capabilities at that time, rather than on what the underlying networking capabilities may provide in the future.

For example, he complains that it's too hard to find information online. His searches returned bad results and made it hard to find what he was looking for. This problem was solved (or began to be solved) only a few years later with Google.

He also mentions that you can't "take you laptop to the beach". He missed out on the idea that hardware would also improve until we have today's Kindles and iPads.

The Internet of 1995 wasn't great, but the underlying technical foundation allowed for growth and expansion that was unforeseen.

[dccoolgai]

True...I feel there is a subtle lesson in there today for all the folks poo-pooing the Amazon drone announcement....