Okay, i'm really dating myself here, but here's the first WIRED issue i bought... WIRED 1.3 from July/August 1993. CD-ROM-based interactive multimedia was the big buzz, but tucked into the "Electric Word" opening section of the magazine was this brief little piece about this revolutionary "hypertext" system developed by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Switzerland.
I find it funny that they were really pushing the "W3" abbreviation, which never stuck. It just became "the Web".
A little bit of history, that is!
I still remember seeing the first version of Mosaic that could handle
graphics in early 1994. That was a bit of a watershed moment for me as a design student.
That fall i got on Mac BBSes, and got my first email address on the university's VM system, which i could only access via green-screen terminals available in certain offices and facilities on campus.