Roxanne Hiltz & Murray Turoff were creating the Internet before there was an Internet. See their engaged but scholarly account in Hiltz, S. R., & Turoff, M. (1978). The Network Nation: Human Communication via Computer. Reading: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. and their 1993 updated version Barry Wellman A vision is just a vision if it's only in your head Step by step, link by link, putting it together Streisand/Sondheim _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab Network FRSC INSNA Founder http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NETWORKED: The New Social Operating System Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman http://amzn.to/zXZg39 _______________________________________________________________________