![]() ![]() I recall being shown some web pages, too. The software engineers were very excited about it. I'm not kidding when I say I was exposed to Mosaic within a few months of its introduction. My wife was a librarian and she had already attended talks about how the internet was the coming thing, and she'd spoken with me about it, but at work I became familiar with it. I had just been hired as a technical writer for a high tech company and it was early 1994. Unlike most of you, I first encountered the internet as an adult, roughly aged 40. whitaker was kind enough to point that out to everyone as he wrote my little extra credits down in the gradebook. as it turned out, i was the only one in the class sophisticated/advantaged enough to have access to such technology at this time, and mr. a few months prior, i'd convinced my dad to buy us an account with a local dial-up ISP, and i was already relatively savvy with it, so it was really no hassle at all. whitaker told us he'd kick us down us a few extra credit points if we could manage to successfully transmit to him, via the inter net, one (1) electronic mail aka E-MAIL. one day, as a way to encourage us to fool around with The 'Net and thereby enrich the part of our brains that abstract mathematical concepts live in, mr. he had lots of fractals posters in the classroom. ![]() whitaker was really fond of "abtract" mathematical concepts such as fractals. For my 8th algebra class ('95) i had a bearded, yet relatively young (35-ish) grateful dead fan "hippie" algebra teacher named mr.
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