I have a reported piece up today that I’m pretty excited about, so here’s a little table-setting before I drop the link.

The first website I ever went on was a dedicated marketing site for Johnny Mnemonic, which came out this month in 1995. All movie ads in newspapers had recently started featuring urls, so I finally tried one. It took so long to log on.

Also released that summer: The Net, Hackers, Virtuosity... and the Netscape IPO that kicked off the dot com boom. It had been around for a while, but the internet truly started hitting critical mass right as it hit movie theaters.

Netscape…now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time