What the First Generation of Internet Founders Got Right
In the mid-1990s, getting online wasn’t immediate. You initiated a connection, waited through a sequence of sounds, and hoped it worked. Even after that, pages didn’t load right away. There was often a pause long enough to make you question whether anything would appear at all. For most people, this wasn’t a routine activity. It felt uncertain, and in many cases, unnecessary. That uncertainty shaped how early founders approached their work. They weren’t refining a familiar system or improving something people already depended on. They were trying to make the internet usable in the first place. Before anything else, they had to answer a simple question: why should someone keep trying this? One example of that mindset can be seen in how entrepreneur and visionary Sky Dayton approa...
