Yep, definitely 1995-1996 was the tipping point for internet awareness in the U.S. At universities, and perhaps some well-connected high schools, a couple years earlier. I was a college freshman in 1993, and already knew about &#x27;the internet&#x27; (long before most people because I was a nerd, finding public access dial-up gopher leading to public access unix systems, all over a 14kbps modem connection), but hadn&#x27;t heard of the web before -- I distinctly recall someone showing me Mozilla in 1993 in a computer lab, a website for a museum of some kind, and I was like &quot;Woah, you can do THAT on the internet now?!? This is going to be big.&quot; In 1995 I was hired by the college IT department as a student worker, to make an experimental prototype college website, the first website the college had. The rest is history. :)<p>(One thing I remember is that my website had a campus map easily accessible from the home page. Once the Communications department took over website responsibility from IT a year later, that disappeared not to return for many years, heh. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;773&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;773&#x2F;</a> )