Ten years. Seems like a lot more, no?

Ten years reminds us that the Internet is still very much in its infancy. It's TV in the 1950s. It's rocket science in the 1960s. It's Kirstie Alley after she put on her first 100 extra pounds. There's a long way to go.

If you think all the good ideas are tapped, then you probably thought jackets couldn't get any more stylish than Members Only. Or that we'd never again see an on-screen duo like Ron Jeremy and Christy Canyon.

I'm still as excited about the Internet as when I was turned onto it, when I first saw ESPN SportsZone in 1996 and thought, "I bet not everyone there is as smart as me." (Not that I would ever in a million years live in Bristol, Conn. But I was insprired to take a post-graduate Web Design and Construction course at The New School that changed my career path.) What I'm getting at is that there are more great ideas to come, more great websites and, by the grace of god, maybe another billion pages of girls going wild.

So, Yahoo!, happy 10th birthday. Here's to many more. If you were CBS, you'd still be decades away from airing Survivor, responsible for a major jolt in the landscape of television programming. You were a lot cooler when you were four (like Patrick Ewing's senior season at Georgetown; superstar promise, very good career followed, ultimately never quite lived up to expectations) but at least you didn't grow up to be a completely irrelevant has-been like AOL (like Jose Canseco and Pete Rose rolled into one big pile of Free-Hours CDs).

Yahoo! Birthday Links

• Yahoo! Netrospective: 10 years, 100 moments of the Web
• Today only: Get Free Baskins-Robbins Ice Cream With This Online Coupon
• Original Yahoo! Home Page From 1995
• Wired Mag: The UnGoogle (Yes, Yahoo!)
• Yahoo! Birthday Boys Are Busy
• USA Today: 10 Years Old and Growing Strong
• CNET: After 10 years, Yahoo Still Searching