As a former computer science major I've seen the web grow exponentially. At that time it was only used by the government and universities for information. It was not available to the general public, the information was absolutely reliable and no advertisements were allowed. Who would companies advertise to anyway... a bunch of us computer geeks typing away on our keyboards in a dimly lit university basement where the terminals lived? During that time the only input was the keyboard. There was no mouse because there was no GUI (graphical user interface). If one wanted to access the internet, one had to know UNIX and use a text based command line interpreter. We also had various options for color. We could have green and black or amber and black, depending on the monitor.

The first computer I built was "state of the art". It had a blazing clock speed of 12MHz, twice as fast as former IBM clones. I went crazy on the storage and installed a 40M hard drive, four times the size of former IBM clones. Memory? Call me crazy, I maxed out at a whopping 2Megs. Oh, and the operating system was a thing called DOS. Eat you heart out!

Things have changed a bit since then, including myself. I know longer qualify as a "computer geek". I haven't followed the programming advancements and languages in years. Instead, I tend to use the right side of my brain a little more and leave the logic to the computers and those who spend time typing away on their keyboards in dimly lit university basements.