Chris Minnick in Internet Evolution: A Decade on the Web: A Look Back & Ahead
“To many of us who got our start working on the Web in the 1990s, the 2000s may have seemed like a letdown. We had dreams of a Semantic Web, the Dow at 8 million, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, groceries delivered to our doors at the click of a mouse, and retiring at 30.
What we got was a dotcom bust, terrorism, war, natural disasters, recession, air travel becoming unbearable, and MySpace. There were some good things, too, of course.”


