I forget exactly when I first encountered the web. It was sometime in 1992, and the standard "publishing" mechanisms of the time were FTP (super common), Gopher and WAIS. Later in the year I remember showing my boss the alpha NCSA Mosaic running on a Slackware Linux I had cobbled together. Two years later I moved out to SF and before a year had passed, started a company with friends that became one of the early web design agencies.<p>Life moved REALLY FAST back then, it's kind of shocking how quickly it all went from barely there to "the next big thing" (air quotes not required in this case). My entire career has largely been built on a thing that didn't exist until 3 years after I started college, which even today seems super weird.