>I was on UT in 99 but my aha moment was when Lisa Slater and I used to exchange messages on CIS ( pre internet ) about 5 times a day. I knew when we started she lived in Santa Rosa, CA and one day in a message I said "Boy you guys are having a hot summer" and she said "No, it's winter - I moved to New Zealand a couple months ago" <g> It had just never come up - or been any kind of factor in our communication.

I may be ireversibly blasé, but I pretty much had to get used to that. The people with whom I communicate regularly are spread across nine timezones, with occasional addition of few hours on any side. Which makes small chat about weather all the more interesting :).