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In 1998, Paul Krugman predicted the internet's impact on the economy would be no greater than the fax machine's
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Honestly, I saw NCSA Mosaic in February (March?) of '93 and remarked to the user that it didn't seem to be anything special, and that I could get all that information on Gopher or Archie. They thought I was crazy.
By July I'd changed my mind and told my wife that in a few years there would be plumbing trucks with web addresses on them instead of 800 numbers. She thought I was crazy.
Maybe I'm just crazy?
You're still crazy, but in a good way.