We can skip around the web all day long, clicking from page to page, but when you get right down to it, the engine of expansion on the Web is forms. Without them, people couldn’t input their personal information to let them buy stuff– let alone actually tell an e-commerce server what they want to buy.
Doing forms was got me interested in all this stuff back in the day (1994 or so). I had spent too much time collecting paper and rekeying information and when I saw that you could remove that whole process with this new WWW stuff, I was sold. Many ugly forms and bad perl CGI scripts later, I still agree with Eric Meyer.