<p> More than two decades, in fact, though most of the earliest stuff was on borrowed accounts–I don&#39;t think I had my own email address until twenty years ago <em>next</em> year.</p> <p> The funny thing is that there are people I know from my very earliest ventures on the &#39;net with whom I still cross paths.</p> <p> In no particular order:</p> <p> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/sgrimm">Steven Grimm</a>, who is now a member of Facebook&#39;s infrastructure team working on memcached (which we use very extensively at Ironic Design) was <a href="http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?enc_user=UASgvBQAAACx55dwHhwEwRiGqT1dtGCz6ByVaTvQhk5i4n6ZEwWJug">very active in the Atari ST community</a> back when I was first getting on the net.</p>