Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 22:06:29 -0700
From: "c.a. thomas" cpcath@ix.netcom.com
To: rrichter@acad.ursinus.edu
Subject: hypertext stuff
I recieved a snail mail letter from my favorite uncle-in-law with a printed enclosure of your source code for your home page. He is... a friend of yours. This was a result of my sending him a printed homepage from Ursinus....
I am enjoying your theories on hypertext. I also am trying to learn this language, much to my associates proclamations of "YOIKS!, what for?" I am of the mindset that this is what I must learn to do to communicate or be lost in an unknown hostile world [with] which i would not have any connection. (not my preference)
When I commented to [my uncle] that www and hypertext are just a new way of doing things we (collectively, of course) have always done, i.e., write, calculate, plan, draw and dream etc. etc. I am afraid I confused him more than ever about this medium.
As a compulsive reader, I for one, am extremely addicted to the net. Too young to be dismayed by it, old enough to just sit back and watch the blinking lights, and sometimes even partake in it.
cathie thomas