Do you remember the first time you used the web? One sunny afternoon in 1994, my dad picked me up from school and brought me to his office, an advertising agency on the 14th floor of a nondescript glass cube in downtown Portland. He sat me down in front of his computer, woke it from a dream of flying toasters, and double clicked an icon labeled Mosaic. I was 11 years old. "It's called the World Wide Web," my dad explained. "It's like HyperCard," something I'd played with often ...

Do you remember the first time you used the web? One sunny afternoon in 1994, my dad picked me up from school and brought me to his office, an advertising agency on the 14th floor of a nondescript glass cube in downtown Portland. He sat me down in front of his computer, woke it from a dream of flying toasters, and double clicked an icon labeled Mosaic. I was 11 years old. "It's called the World Wide Web," my dad explained. "It's like HyperCard," something I'd played with often ...