You know sometimes the internet is useful … and then sometimes it’s just really cool.

Last night it was both. I found a long lost friend online last night. Well actually he found a mutual friend of ours and she got us all together in the same chat window. If that’s not a great use for the internet then what is?

Also, it made me appreciate how far things have come on the net in the 10 or so years that I’ve been using it. I remember when Usenet and Gopher were the killer apps. I remember when the first voice chat applications hit the net…and MAN did they suck! But today with modern instant messengers you can — inside of a few seconds — have a very clear voice conversation with your long lost best friend accross the country.

I mean you would think that with davidmeade.com I’d be the hardest person in the world to lose track of…but it happens. But now-a-day’s, thankfully, the internet can facilitate reunions that otherwise wouldn’t have happened. Ah…progress.