After a cultural revolution that spanned decades, the generation that grew up in the 1980s wanted nothing to do with the strident positions of the past. Their heroes believed in freedom for all sentient beings and they learned at an early age that opponents were not always enemies. They experimented with new kinds of music and new technologies and they created the World Wide Web that linked every country on Earth. They wanted to talk with people all over the world and they created the services to do so.