Mom recently sent a photo of me with Joshua Davis in 8th grade (me, not him); I had forced my parents to swing by Kioken’s office during a family trip to NYC in 2000 to meet Josh, Peter Kang and Gene Na.

It’s a nice reminder of the Internet’s radical impact on the boondocks: it enabled a kid living in coastal Maine to feel apart of the Dot-com boom.  And, coincidentally, here I am, 10 years later, living in NYC and participating in a similar boom.

Hey Internet, thanks for the memories.