I remember the first web browser I ever saw.  I was working at NYU at the time.  Gopher was the hot technology du jour and of course we were running a server.  A colleague called me into his office and showed me some early version of NCSA Mosaic running on an X Terminal (which in those days referred to a piece of hardware).  I don't remember my exact words, but they were something along the lines of "meh".  Another in a long line of personal failures to recognize the next new thing before it bit me in the ass ...