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W.W.W.

World Wide Web. Decentralized computer network, with multiplatform graphic interface, based on TCP/IP protocol, with access to information on... on most anything that the subject can possibly think of.

"What's this?! It's pretty!!"

(First time the subject used Mosaic.)

In the night of times, I had access to an IBM9370 and we handled the university's BITNET e-mail... using terminals that you had to press a key in order to refresh the screen. No text scroll. A nightmare...

One day I discovered an e-mail FTP server: you sent it e-mail with a series of commands (most interactive!) and eventually you got a reply, along with some downloaded files. Then, we downloaded the files from the IBM9370 to PC's diskettes.

After a while, our system accounts (in UNIX or VMS machines) had e-mail, USENET access, telnet, FTP... and, finally, one day we had graphical web browsers...

...and we started to peek into the World Wide Web. And we began to have favorite bookmarks. And we knew places where you could download... anything that could fit in digital format.

All of a sudden, it was like having a pair of wings in my back.

Nowadays, I have my own HomePage (this...) and at home me and my wife have e-mail and accesss to the Internet.

For those who watched Johnny Nemonic, I think we're heading that way (more or less)...

Long Live The Web!

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