“Chance favors the connected mind”*…
The Wall Street Journal‘s review of the web in late 1996– completely intact, with links still live…
Stroll down memory lane here.
[TotH to Benedict Evans]
See also “We haven’t learned anything about what the web is for since 1996.”
* Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
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As we try to remember, we might send well-connected birthday greetings to Bob Wallace; he was born on this date in 1949. A software developer, programmer and the ninth employee of Microsoft, He was the first popular user of the term “shareware,” creator of the word processing program PC-Write, founder of the software company Quicksoft, and an “online drug guru” who devoted much time and money to the research of psychedelic drugs.
Bob ended his Usenet posts with the phrase, “Bob Wallace (just my opinion).”
