Interesting piece of trivia: Tucows, parent company of Hover, went public by buying the remains of the first start-up I was involved with, Infonautics, and doing a reverse merger. We went public as part of the craziness of '95—we were on of the few stocks that didn't, if I recall correctly, gain any ground in the first day of trading. (Oops!) I left in autumn of '96 and watched to cash on hand shrink with each successive quarterly report until Tucows stepped in.
Those were the days…