My sixteen year old daughter said to me this morning, that in war the first thing they take down is communication and I asked her, where she learnt this from and it turns out it was a 2019 anime series, Dr. Stone who uses science to rebuild human civilization after everyone on Earth is turned to stone. The main character, Taiju keeps his consciousness alive with the power of love. He awakens years later to find he's not alone.

I fell in love with the internet in the late 1990s and can still remember the pre-internet days when information had to be bought in a book or magazine, read in a newspaper, watched on television or borrowed from a library; where your social circles consisted of work, school, youth groups, church and neighbors and then the internet came along and opened up the whole world of possibility; where suddenly you could with a click of a button order a product to be delivered from overseas or communicate with people from around the world in real time.

My first website was for an organic food co-op in St.Kilda that thanks to the emergence of search engines, grew to the largest buying group in Melbourne in a short space of time. We made use of a free domain and free web hosting and at that time, I was able to use simple commands to send out email to a mailing list for free, update a website and do all the ordering