Originally Posted by MAllie

I found this statement interesting because I am old enough to remember a time when people said, 'But what's the point of having a computer at home? What's the point in having websites, when we only have to go down the road to the shops to buy what we want?' Now everyone's talking about dotcom as if it were something that was always around and always accepted. The fact is, everything was new at some time, even the wheel, and people had to be convinced as to its value. I can imagine stone-age guys standing around scratching their heads and saying, 'But what's the point of that funny circle thing, when we have legs?'