Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.
I'm kind of calling for a - I'm not the only one - you know, a revolution of some kind where we try to take back the web or start something new because, you know, the dominant medium of our time is in a desperate state and it doesn't have to be like that.
I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me.
I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course I felt that it did.
Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.
Back in 1995, I saw an incredible wave coming. The Internet. I knew I needed to be a part of it no matter what I did.
Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
We were there at the beginning of the web 2.0.
This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.
The World Wide Web went from zero to millions of web pages in a few years. Many revolutions look irrelevant just before they change everything swiftly.
For me, the early 2000s stood for this vast, magical, electronic cyber realm - a time when the internet was so infinite, mysterious, and under-explored.
By the time I graduated college, I was sick of what was out there. I wanted to bring something new to the Internet.
