Yesterday, I found one of my first HTML books I purchased collecting dust in my garage. I opened it up out of curiosity to see what things were like 12 years ago. All the samples were done in the NCSA Mosaic Browser, which at the time was THE browser. I remember connecting to my service provider through a telnet connection. 14.4 k connections were fast. AOL and CompuServe were new and trying to establish a presence.

I had a good chuckle reviewing the book because all you could really do in HTML were some minor text styles, hyper links, images, tables (which were new to HTML) and if you were a serious programmer you could create forms with some CGI scripts in Python or Java. CyberSpace and the World Wide Web were still common lingo. And most companies didn’t have a domain address (or even knew what one was).

It is amazing how things have changed in such a short period of time. Most of us could not survive without an Internet connection, our blog or cell phones. You have to love technology!