[cuban leaf]

Do you remember when the internet community chastised a user for trying to sell his computer or something in his messages? The meme back then was powerful: The internet will never be used for commerce of any kind.

:-P

[yldstrk]

AND I remember there was a big debate about free software vs purchased.

[bIlluminati]

Do you remember when the internet community chastised a user for trying to sell his computer or something in his messages?

I believe you are are referring to the first spam message. back then, there were only a few hundred computers in a university net, and this idiot sent a message to everybody on the entire network. It was considered bad form, and still is, to send unsolicited commercial email, UCE, aka spam.