Here are some social change questions...
First news event that you followed primarily on line? The challenger explosion of 1987 for me...as a note, I found out about the WTC events from an email from my Aunt saying 'crazy things are happening, be gentle to each other.' Heather asked me if something was happening, I said not really, the Isreali's were being beastly to the Palestinians, but that was all. Then we hit the web and The World Had Changed.

What was the first time you heard 'significant' personal news via email? For me it was the birth of Tomass's second child...so probably late 1999 or so...oh, wait, didn't Reed just graduate from College or something? Dang we are getting old.

note: Tomass just emailed me and said it was 1/25/94. Now, that is basically absurd. That means that I'm like five years older than I had planned to be at this point in my life. I think I'll stick with 1999 :-)

The first time you had a system that you created referred to as a 'Legacy System.' The first time you had a system finish its' full life cycle and be retired... I think Fall of 1996 for me.

The first time you were 'personally' impacted by a 2 Gigabyte file size limit? Yesterday when our database dumps got too damn big.