At the beginning of that Fall term one of my classmates pulled up next to me while I was working on a NeXT box in our lab. He had me pull up an app he'd had a hand in working on over his summer in Switzerland. "Check it out — this is going to be great. So much better than Gopher," he said. After following a few links I replied, "It's nice, but doesn't provide much more than Gopher right now." "No — but it will." It was fun to be able to see things in the earliest days of the web, & to see how it grew. Never would have guessed at the time that the browser would become the centerpiece of most people's computer use.