I've been a computer junkie since the late 1960s, had my first email romance in 1976, and was an Internet junkie by the mid-80s, nearly 10 years before the Web began. However, it took me quite a while to realize that I could join this passion with my passion for research. I'd done some telecommunications research in the 1980s, but only in the early 1990s did I change over my entire research agenda to economic and technical issues of information transport and information content.