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Leaving Search Engine Watch: little known fact: Danny Sullivan was one of the very, very first people to get me hooked on to the Internet as a career. Story: when I was just 16, I did a summer internship at the Orange County Register. As a part of that, I launched what would be the fifth newspaper ever online (ocregister.com, formerly called RWorld at that time). During that summer, I also started programming an http logfile analytics program in Visual Basic (I called it Weblog). Val Cohen and Leah Gentry (who I worked for) figured it’d be good for me to do some work over at our Internet hosts office. Maximized Online, in Irvine, CA was co-owned by former OC Register graphic designer Danny Sullivan and Ken Spreitzer. I worked in their offices (using a beta of VB4) using a projector as my monitor. Ken taught me a lot about writing good code. Danny about aesthetics, etc. Good times. I wish you luck Danny.