.. then how should we describe the activities of Douglas Englebert or Vint Cerf 2 decades prior? That's very true. In relative terms, I was an early adopter.

.. then how should we describe the activities of Douglas Englebert or Vint Cerf 2 decades prior? That's very true. In relative terms, I was an early adopter. I clearly remember the buzz that went around when somebody told us that there were now the unbelievable number of 'one million nodes on the Net'. That was four years or so before MSFT 'got religion' and turned on a dime to provide Web software. (Much as I dislike MSFT, that was really fantastic, fast work!) These days of course, a million nodes more or a million nodes less is merely 'daily noise level'.