from the same archive, this macworld piece from 1994 about the mosaic browser and the then-new web. stephen levy might be embarrassed by it now - crass surfing metaphors, vague sexism, and naive astonishment at accessing stuff from around the world at random - however bad the stuff. only people over 35 will remember how strange that once seemed. 15 years on, global random access is taken for granted and we are astonished when we can't get it. still, levy was prescient:
The latest status symbol is putting up one's personal home page - a private URL is more desirable than a Beverly Hills area code - complete with digitized portrait, hypertext resume, your vacation photos, and of course the proper links to your favourite Web sites and the home pages of all your friends. Mosaic, I think, will one day be everyone's personal interface with the world. Soon we will have Secure Mosaic and be able to use our credit cards to buy things directly from Mosaic sites.
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