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The
Web.
It's an amazing place that has reshaped my life, and I fell into it pretty much by accident. I used the Internet before the Web but it just didn't seem very useful. In the fall of 1994, I retired from a career as an officer in the U.S. Navy, and took a job as a Computer Science teaching assistant at Illinois Institute of Technology, where I had been teaching Naval Science for the two previous years, and where I was enrolled as a PhD student. From my Navy days, I was used to getting up and being on campus early, so I took 8-10am office hours. Fact is, undergrads never come see TA's at 8 in the morning, so I had time on my hands every morning. The campus chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery had put in a Linux server and allowed all faculty and staff to have accounts. The Internet-connected computers we had bfore this on campus were VAX/VMS systems. If you've never used the VMS operating system, trust me, you've missed nothing. VMS makes UNIX look like a model of clarity and simplicity.
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