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Flashback! NBC anchors ‘glimpse the future’ of Internet in archive videos 

On its 25th anniversary, we can think of many reasons why we love the World Wide Web. But there was a time when we weren’t so sold on its virtues. In these NBC News archive clips from 1994 and 1995, we go back to when the World Wide Web and the Internet were mere mysteries.The Internet and the World Wide Web are not the same thing“Millions of Americans own a personal computer,” said TODAY an

On its 25th anniversary, we can think of many reasons why we love the World Wide Web. But there was a time when we weren’t so sold on its virtues. In these NBC News archive clips from 1994 and 1995, we go back to when the World Wide Web and the Internet were mere mysteries.

The Internet and the World Wide Web are not the same thing

“Millions of Americans own a personal computer,” said TODAY anchor Bryant Gumbel in a 1995 clip. “If you're one of them, you can glimpse the future with nothing more than a modem, a phone line and a few dollars a month."

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See what Bryant Gumbel, Matt Lauer, Katie Couric, Elizabeth Vargas, Tom Brokaw — and even Bill Gates — had to say years ago about the “massive computer network” we call the Internet.