Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.
There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.
We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.
The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.
In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.
On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!