Michael Mealing has an interesting perspective on the past couple weeks’ events in entrepreneurial space.

I was in the terminal room when the guys from UIUC came in and started to demo their new web browser (at the time this wasn’t a big deal because gopher had a much higher adoption rate). The one thing that caught my eye was the fact that it had pictures. And then Tim Berners-Lee came into the room and proceeded to watch the demo (he didn’t like the IMG tag very much). It was at that moment that I felt something. It wasn’t buzz or hype or anything like that. It was just a quiet, but very rapid build up of human potential energy. I told myself to remember that feeling.

I got that same feeling hearing about the things that happened this past weekend. And I don’t intend on missing out on it again.

I wonder if a lot of dot-com refugees are going to feel the same way.

He also points out that last weekend’s Space Access conference coincided with the tenth anniversary of the rollout of the Mosaic web browser, which is the one that really got the web going.