I am pretty amazed that PG said what he has always been saying since 20 years ago. Thanks to New York Times to open their archive. I was then in the other side on Earth. I remember then my friends and I were so impressed by what RTM did then. (Taiwan then had not yet been hooked up into Internet, we only had a BITNET in my university reserved for CS and graduate school faculty and students, and I was a sophomore in Physics dept with two VT200 to VAX with 9600 baud line, and to us some guy could write such a cool program in a naughty sense was like GOD.) I never had a chance to read this article in New York Times in print then. I was too lazy to walk into our library to read the archive. It is really funny 20 years later to read this piece. And it also reminds me how many things have changed since Internet becomes a commodity in first world.

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Now I need to imagine what will happen if 3 billion people in the world connected with Internet in next 10 years.