I first got online in 1981, and one of the first people I met (on CompuServe, if that name rings a bell) was a kid my age named Rob Reid. Even though he lived on the other side of the country, he and I became almost instant friends, and that friendship has persisted to this day.
Rob has done some pretty amazing things in the thirty years that have passed since we first met. (You can read the details on Wikipedia). But, most recently, he gave a hilarious talk at TED about, as he dubs it, Copyright Math. Here's the five-minute speech:
