Way back at the turn of the century, when the Web was still 1.0 and a ragtag band of ragged IT staffers thought they could make a mint going virtual, I got to repeatedly experience the joys (please note intense sarcasm!) of web conferencing [1], dot-bomb style. We had the marketing and sales office in NYC (where I worked), the data center in New Jersey, and believe it or not, coders in Bulgaria. And every few days, we got to do web conferencing [2] with jumpy blurry webcam images and scratchy audio and really ... high ... latency.

Nowaday, of course, the Web is all two-point-oh! and your Grandma Skypes you and you can actually podcast in front of a live video audience and web conferencing [3] has, no doubt, gotten much better. We're all 21st century and stuff, now. But I think it would do us all well to remember that, just a few short years ago, the world was a very different place, where you could barely even make out the voices of your ex-KGB coders in Bulgaria, let alone work out what they ere talking about.

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