[MURDER MASTERMIND UNCOVERED: Web Review investigates Tom 
Arriola]
"How did you first tumble
to the World Wide Web?"

We have a computer lab at school, and I was just using it to print out my junk, because I had an Internet connection at home. But I saw a TV show about the World Wide Web, and then I saw somebody using it on the computer next to mine, so I got on and started to surf. Went all over the place.

Then I found that coffee pot in Cambridge, England. I realized that there was something more to the Web than a bunch of data; you can do more than just search for keywords. You can go there, live. It's more entertaining, more theatrical than people think. It has some qualities that are better than theater: in a theater, you sit and watch; on the Internet you're more active: you can go there and participate in an active way.

So that was my first experience: just seeing somebody doing it and climbing on myself.

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