walter, steve case, steve crocker. [applause] steve crocker, steve case, we had al gore here last year so we can get rid of that joke really fast. i worked for him as the importance of the september when aol opened up to the internet and what people in and certainly they didn't know the importance of steve crocker. i'm going to start with steve because then it is woven into the internet and it starts with a graduate student at the university of california santa barbara ucla. and they were the first to get to these nodes and message processors that were going to be part of the internet. and they thought that the u.s. government and the pentagon and all these people were creating it with todd and how to do it. the research universities just updated it to the graduate students and you became the lead graduate student. tell me the story. >> i didn't know it was going to be important either. [laughter] so as you said, the project which was the seedlings for what became the internet started out as a project to connect to the