A friend tells a friend tells a friend

Networked friendships

The big promise of the Internet is that it can connect you to all manner of things, all kinds of people.

I still hold the most vivid image of my very first web connection, 29 years ago now. It was the homepage of someone somewhere out west in America — let’s say it was Montana even if it wasn’t, it felt like that, this picture of a log cabin under a big …