Happy Birthday from Howard Wolinsky
For those of you who don't know me, I'm our US blogger, writing regularly about Skype news, views and the inside track on the company from a uniquely American angle.
Back in late 1995, I was new on the tech beat at the Chicago Sun-Times.
I asked to cover the Net because I was tired of the medical beat. My bosses knew I was an early Net adopter so they set me loose to cover the emerging tech. I cover the pre-boom Internet, the dot-com boom and the dot-bomb, and then on to Web 2 and beyond before I left the paper in January.
Voice on the Net was among the technologies that intrigued me back then and does to this day, both personally and as Skype's US blogger.
The problem back in those days was you couldn't easily connect with friends and family. It was a bit like ham radio.
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