When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the World Wide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.

Clinton contrasts the early, specialist origins of the World Wide Web with its rapid mainstream adoption during his presidency. By invoking “high energy physicists,” he nods to the Web’s roots in research networks and scientific institutions, then uses the comic image of a cat with its own webpage to signal how quickly the technology became domesticated and ubiquitous. The line functions as a political-tech anecdote: it frames the 1990s as a period of extraordinary digital diffusion and implies that government leadership coincided with (and perhaps helped enable) a transformation in everyday life. It also captures a moment when personal homepages were a cultural marker of internet participation.