Things certainly happened very quickly in that period -- it's staggering to think that 1997 was only four years after the web began to percolate, and C&B I think got its lift because it happened when Netscape decided to open source their browser.

It's definitely hard to work out a chronology when things are piling one after the other, and also there wasn't the same consistency of knowledge propagation. It was still very hard to find out new things online.

Thanks for the thanks!