Katia Moskvitch, business editor Painfully slow dial-up modemsįirst memories of the web: dial-up modems and that distorted jingle each time you had to manually log on. Times change, we grow up, the world wide web is growing up with us. Facebook is full of people I know personally. Since then, I am very wary of talking to strangers online – only professionally, on Twitter and LinkedIn. We could chat on the computer for hours – but meeting face to face, the chemistry was just not there. And that’s those offline meetings that broke the illusion for me. I did meet people in those chatrooms – with a couple of them I even met offline, albeit briefly. They had to get me off the computer, a big bulky monitor, with a broom, but I kept going back.
