Yep, we of the SS ... wait, that doesn't sound good ... er, we SSers (nope, that's not much better) ... um, we Online Baby Boomers (OBBs ... yeccch), that is to say, those of us born between 1946 and 1964 who use the 'Net, are a huge cohort.

And those of us Silver Surfers who have, in particular, been in the Information Technology world, have also been through the mill: We were around to grapple with mainframes and we were there to wrestle with minicomputers.

We know punched paper tape from punch cards. We know what green bar paper is. We've mounted mag tape and manhandled diskpacks the size of hat boxes (if any of that makes no sense to you, dear reader, you aren't a Silver Surfer).

We Silver Surfers then tamed PCs when they put in an appearance and we built local area networks out of them with what today looks like baling wire, chewing gum and hope.

Even better, we made the Internet explosion happen and then we enjoyed the Internet Bubble and were dismayed when it burst. We have been around the block and we've been back again.