>Are you old enough to remember what the internet looked like after 13 years?

I first logged on to the Internet in October of 1990 in my universities computer lab on a VAX mainframe-based network.

I did so to play a game that the computer club was hosting.

You cite nice examples, but it's cherry-picking at the up-close level.

All I'm trying to say is that this technology will have utilization and benefits that we can't yet imagine, and once we have them they'll feel as common as checking the weather online is.

Edited for an additional point of reference that is very important: The official birthday of the Internet is January 1st, 1983.

Your 13-year projections would be to reference the very early public internet and AOL world of 1996. The jump in tech is astounding in that context.