Online, Past, Present and Future: Repetition, Reinvention, or Reincarnation?

摘要

Twenty years? It's been twenty years since I received the first issue of ONLINE? Twenty years since I first read Jeff Pemberton's column The Inverted File? I can't believe it. I haven't aged that much, Jeff hasn't aged that much, and most definitely, Jenny hasn't aged that much. Although, I must admit, the children keep getting older. Unbelievable to think that it was twenty years ago that Online Inc. started. Say, did I ever tell you about the first time I met our illustrious publisher? Oh, I did, you say. And you also point out that the first few sentences of this column sound familiar. Yes, just substitute "ten" for "twenty" and you've got the lead paragraph of The Dollar $ign for January 1987, along with an account of my first encounter with ONLINE and its publisher.