Wow, great essay! The first time I was ever aware of anything like the Internet was a guy (a friends Scout leader), using his Commodore Amiga to connect on what must have been a 2400 baud modem to play some archaic space trading simulator against like-minded persons. Today, I connect using via a 28k max phone-line and chiefly surf using a text-only browser, but its a million times better than nothing at all, and I can send e-mails easily. Sure I would like to be able to download songs ad play on-line, but at least I have access to all the information. I'm not overly keen on the use of frames though.