Transcription

Richard Ram – General Manager, Reactive 

“So when I was working at Flying Nun, I’d just got email. Email was just starting. And I basically said to Flying Nun, “We should get email”. Roger was honestly faxing hundreds of pages all over the world and their international toll bill was huge. I was saying, “Let’s start sending email”. And at that time, I’d started to talk to Mushroom Records in Australia and they’d gone onto CompuServe. And I think Simon Grigg was on CompuServe for a while and so, Mushroom Records came up with this idea, “Ok, we’re going to put Roger on CompuServe and he’ll be able to email us – batch the emails up and he can send them over once a day”. And I was saying, “What? What do you mean ‘once a day’?” And they said, ‘Well that’s how we’re going to do it. Once a day”. And I just thought, “Ahh ok”. But it made me laugh. You forget that that wasn’t that long ago. But if you’d told someone that, you know you’d just be saying, “What do you mean once a day?”.”

Contribute

Down to the Wire is a story that evolves with your memories and contributions so please contribute personal anecdotes, key events and web resources you think others might find useful.

If you know of a good web resource with more information give us the http://www and we'll include it.
Remember something interesting from the year? Give us a quick story!
If you know of any significant event that you think we should mention - give us the details and we'll include it.
If you know someone who tells a great, kiwi Internet related, yarn - let us know who and we'll get in touch to ask them about appearing in a video.
Any general thoughts on the project? Likes or dislikes, let us know how we can evolve the site to be the best resource.

Add a Website of the Year

Down to the Wire is a story that evolves with your memories and contributions. Let us know what you think were the exciting local websites of the year.

Even on the Internet space is limited so we can't mention every site, but we'll do our best to include your suggestion if you tell us why.