This article, about an early release of the first graphical web browser, is totally awesome.
The age of a global information network arrived some time ago, but few noticed, because there was no easy way to navigate through the nearly 10 terabytes of information–about 10,000 times more data than is found on a typical PC hard disk–that is publicly available on the Internet computer network.
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“Mosaic is turning hypermedia into a medium that can be practically used,” says Marc Andreessen, NCSA programmer of the X Window System version of Mosaic. “It’s kind of like a ’90s NCSA Telnet.”
The next time one of my clients asks for documentation I will remind them that “one rarely needs to know more than ‘click on the colored text‘ to effectively use the software.”