Quiet thoughts

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Debt, economic decline, immigration; hippies, anti-government, freedom.
At the end of the 1980s, a wave of change encompassed a country boy from the Rust Belt.
As the gate for upward mobility was on the verge of closing, he struggled to move forward.
College, Silicon Valley, entrepreneurship; HP, Apple, Microsoft.
To become part of the 1%, or even 0.1%, he sacrificed a lot, but also gained a lot.
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American History 1988

"I guess you have some good news to tell me."


Jim Clark, who drove directly from Silicon Graphics, seemed very eager with his first words upon arrival.


There was no helping it; since he began paying attention to the internet, he had been captivated by it.


As browsers slowly started circulating on shared websites, the novelty of webpages had gradually piqued people's interest.


By March 1993, the entire internet totaled less than a hundred websites, while the number of netizens had already surpassed a million.


So each of these websites was closely watched, to the extent that someone specialized in tallying a daily catalogue of new sites.


And no matter how much attention these sites garnered, they all depended on one thing, and that was a browser.


Berners Lee's World Wide Web browser, the Viola WWW written by Berkeley students, and the Enwise from Helsinki University had all achieved varying degrees of spread.


Chapter 287 Explorer (explorer)