Fishbone's Angelo Moore.
Trivia: Can anybody tell me the name
of the instrument Angelo is playing?

I remember the golden age of the internet. It was 1993 and I was a freshman computer science major in college programming Pascal and C until the wee hours in the morning. Pascal and C are now totally defunct programming languages, but they sure were useful in learning programming algorithms that I still use on a daily basis. That same year I was introduced to a program in the Unix lab called Lynx. Lynx was (and still is) really cool, it allowed me to look up all of the lyrics to my favorite songs and see where and when my favorite bands were playing. At the time I had no idea I was looking at the internet when looking up the lyrics to Fishbone's "Bonin' in the Boneyard."

I know that Al Gore created the internet sometime in 1999, but I swear I was using it years before that. Fortunately NCSA created the Mosaic web browser a few months after I discovered the internet allowing me to experience the internet with both text and pictures. Once I saw a web page with images and text, I knew I had to create one. Sometime during the Fall of 1994 I posted my first personal web page, I guess that's when this madness started for me.

The internet has come a long way since 1993, but every once in a while I am reminded of those early days with the Lynx web browser. When I do a text edit on a "classic" HTML only site I am reminded of more simple times. These days it seems that every website I build incorporates some sort of backend or content management system (CMS) which allows non-programmers to update their sites. This is a good thing, without CMS systems many blogs would not exist, and how could you live without reading your favorite blogs? I think I'll install Lynx on my Mac and go surf some blogs in text-only mode, maybe while surfing I'll look-up some song lyrics. What exactly does Michael Stipe sing in REM's "Its the End of the World As We Know It"?