I had made a small career on building Internet Service Providers in California, in the early days, and will never forget how liberating it was to carry my laptop to the Griffith Park observatory with a fully-charged Ricochet modem plugged in, communicating to my house down in Los Feliz, where another Ricochet modem gateway'ed me to the Internet via the house 56k line ..

It was truly astonishing to be up there, checking email.

A few, what seems very short, years later .. and now it is just normal.