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Hopefully the world won't turn into a giant Hyper-text document, but it's still fun and usefull for exploring the world without getting off your ass.
Excepting a few limitations of the doorway in, it's pretty spiffolishious... One of the key ingredients in the Internet, diversity. You go around to all these different places, and pick up on all this strange and different ways that people live and do things. What about when your link to the net gets cut off? It's like having your legs amputated. Most annoying...
Though it's probably redundant, here is a list of Internet tools:
Netscape (WEB, FTP, yadda yada yada...)
Eudora (Email)
Homer (IRC talking)
NewsWatcher (Usenet messages)
There is other crap that is specific to one thing like Anarchie and TurboGopher (etc.) and utilities for slarping the files once you get them (like MacCompress, UUTool, Tar and others), but you can get those as you need them.... Oh, and if you looooove that command-line, you can use Telnet. I know all Mac users have such a fondness of those....
Another cool thing. With the newer version of FirstClass, BBSes that are linked to the Internet can be dialed into from the internet. SO, I could call a local FC board, and zoof through the Internet to another FC board, anywhere in the world...all on a local call. That makes OneNet look pretty sad.
C