Hey, this is Josh Levine, the host of One Year.

I hope you're enjoying our season on 1995.

This week, I'm turning things over to One Year's producer, Evan Chong.

When Paul Camusso first logged on to the internet at the very beginning of the 1990s, he didn't

find it all that exciting.

There really wasn't much I needed, I mean, basically there were bullets and boards.

You know, there were forearms, there was information, there was new services, very, very basic

though.

I mean, it was just all more tech-related and nerd stuff.

Paul was working for the software company Lotus.

If you weren't a tech geek like he was, chances are that you'd never heard of the internet,

let alone used it.

There were text-only, non-graphical interfaces.

Basically, you had to sort of keep a little notebook that had IP addresses.

I mean, it was that simple back in those days.

But in 1995, everything was changing.

The internet was becoming more accessible thanks to something called the World Wide Web.

The World Wide Web is the fastest-growing segment of the internet, but most importantly,

it is the most fun.

The web was simple to navigate with the arrival of search engines, type in the topic and click

on search.

Oh cool, everything I need is right here.

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