Many people are surprised and fascinated when I tell them that I met my wife on the Internet. That isn't strictly true - we met while both talking at an Internet seminar and only got to know each by email - but people are even more surprised when I tell them we've been married for 10 years and together for 11.

At those Internet seminars - for we went on to do a number of them over the first couple of years - we used to give out copies of Zen and the Art of the Internet. First published in 1992 by the infamous Brendan P Kehoe, Zen taught people about the basic functionality of the Internet and how it could be used.