>> any student could instantly call up the text or pictures from any book in the smithsonian or tap into a supercomputer from nasa. a specialist at a huge city hospital could help diagnose patients at small rural clinics anywhere. >> the web is incredibly exciting because it is the fulfillment of a lot of our dreams that the computer would ultimately not be primarily a device for computation, but metamorphosize into a device for communication. >> it is the equivalent of the industrial revolution. it is the equivalent of electricity. the changes are just so profound. >> when we look back 100 years from now, this is the point where we're going to say, this is where everything changed. >> i wasn't prepared to translate that as i was doing that little tease. >> oh, that's right. >> that little mark with the "a" and then the ring around it. >> "at"? >> see, that's what i said. katie said she thought it was "about." >> yeah. >> oh. >> or "around." >> but i've never heard it said. i'd always seen the mark but never heard it said. and then it sounded stupid when