"It's certainly not going to be like the first time somebody saw a television. It's certainly not going to be as profound as when someone in Nebraska first heard a radio broadcast. It's not going to be that profound."
That's exactly what it was like for me, back in the mid 1990s, using WebChat Broadcasting System for the first time.
I didn't care much for computers growing up in the late 1980s and early 1990s, I found them useful primarily for gaming. When I first used the Internet, it was like lightning struck, I knew immediately what it would mean, and how big it could be one day. I viewed it as an infinite canvas. Watching the early explosion of web sites just reinforced that. The computer became nothing more than a vehicle to get to the Internet for me, and it still is to this day. It completely altered my life, growing up in the middle of nowhere Appalachia. It exposed me to a world I would have never touched otherwise. I started my first Internet company with a bunch of Australians circa 1996/97 as a teenager... from nowhere Appalachia. Not as profound as someone in Nebraska hearing a radio broadcast for the first time? I beg to differ.