1980 was a scary time. Nobody knew how to get our economy going. We had some (Altair) microcomputer stuff in Otto Schmitt's lab, but I never got access because the VietNam vets hogged it. My chem lab had a PDP11, pre-Unix, hooked to a teletype, and computer automation was a big push. I don't think I was important starting the internet, but I never knew anybody else pushing it earlier, and I still don't believe it. I believe it was like crowd-funding, everybody just pushed their weight and we all made something move. So here we are again, a country in debt, uncertain future. And now everything runs on computers. Iran is still in the news. The environment, too. And now we have a truly amazing open source Linux, on all kinds of hardware. I sincerely believe we will need better computer skills if we hope to compete. Cars, power plants, factories, all industries will need computer (Linux) skills. TCLUG should be where leaders grow.