Back in the day about 20 years ago....I had a shell account. Anyone use Lynx?
So after a while I got a dial up ISP account that I could web surf on, it was fun. Now I could start to do real surfing with http!!!
Later in the month, I went to the home of my Amateur Radio mentor. For two weeks he had Netscape on Windows 3.1 after getting an ISP dial up connection.
I was watching him look for something on the web. He had a few URL's written down. After finding where he wanted to go he typed in the URL and hit enter on the address bar. Then I saw him type in another URL and hit enter. I asked him why he didn't just click the link. He looked at me with a puzzled look. I said, "Just click the link." Huh? I said "Click the words in blue text on the screen with your mouse". He clicked the link and had an astonished look on his face.
For two weeks he thought that this Internet thing was silly because of the typing involved.....that day he learned what Hypertext really meant!
RT