How Does the Web Feel?

The world wide web is fascinating. One of my favorite pages (long gone and irretrievable even by the wayback engine) was of a girl who wrote compelling personal stories.

One of them was titled "How Does the Web Feel?" and even 20 years after first reading the text it still rings with me.

Back in the mid-nineties the internet was a place to meet friendly strangers and make friends easily. It was a close-knit community and far away from what the web is today.

For more than a decade, the sole means of access to the vast interweb was modem dial-up. The good thing was that you were unperturbed by phone while you were surfing.

I spent many nights online, just exploring and marveling, feeling connected to the minds of people who wrote stuff like that girl.

Thanks Julie