A brief history of the future

It had completely slipped my mind that 30 years ago I was trying to get my head around email, creating websites and Usenet, while trying to support people who had bought a dialup Internet connection and didn’t know what to do with it. I got seconded from my database wrangling job (which I wasn’t that good at) to working for Easynet, an Internet Service Provider just when that was becoming a thing in the wake of Demon’s success. Easynet’s Unique Selling Point was