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I can think of no other Internet company that was so far (a decade?) ahead of its time.

I loved that damn product so much. This has nothing to do with the thread, but I just want you to know that you had at least one rabid fan from 1994 - 1998.

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thank you - it was a good product, but sadly the company melted down, took something that worked and decided to spend a year re-writing it in COM; meanwhile portal sits like Yahoo! came along and eat their lunch. A disastrous CEO that turned down a huge exit opportunity was replaced with an equally disastrous one that spent most of his time worrying about what particular rain forest he wanted chopped down to have this desk made from.

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