This is a personal statement, so I'll use first person. It is relevant to the pubwan movement, though, so this is probably an appropriate enough place to put it. I suppose I became a netizen in 1991. My first exposure to the Internet happaned as a result of taking a computer science class at . I didn't even know the internet existed when I started there. I was exploring the local filesystem and inevitably found my way to /usr/spool/news. I was udderly amaized. It was like letters to the editor, but without the editor. It was like talk radio, but without the call screener. It was like a 1980's style "bulletin board," but with multiple hosts. It was like ham radio, but without having to get a license. In a multi objective optimization sense, it was clearly the most significant development ye