**By Keith Devlin** **@KeithDevlin@fediscience.org****, ****@profkeithdevlin.bsky.social** This month marks the 30th anniversary of the MAA website you are looking at, which back then was a new members-service medium called *MAA Online*. “Devlin’s Angle” was one of the regular features from the getgo. Out of curiosity, when I was deciding what to write about for January 2026, I looked over my first post in January 1996. It began: *If you are reading these words, then you have already taken the plunge and made at least the first tentative steps into the strange new world of the World Wide Web. And it really is a different world, with different rules, different advantages, and different dangers—as the story below indicates.* Having started to use email in 1986, by 1996 I was familiar with Internet technology (the Web appeared in late 1990), but those of us involved in MAA members-communications operated under the assumption that many MAA members were not.…