Two weeks before the event the doorbell rang in Paradiso. At the door was Charly Jungbauer. "I guess you are in trouble having promised this network, and so on, I like it, I will make your network happen... " And he and his gang sat in Amsterdam for two weeks in the hot summer of 1989 stripping cables, making hubs, providing a network. Only when Charly Jungbauer appeared at the door did I realise the different specialties we needed to make this work.