While surfing the Internet to monitor our articles that get published online, I stumbled upon 3 articles that brought some old memories.

The first one was from Leo Magno as he gave his perspective on the passage of the E-Commerce Law last June 2000. Getting our solons attention was a result of being tenacious and consistent with principles and values to our cause. This made us different and standout from the rest. Despite limited resources, we got the support necessary to succeed.

Another one is from Edison Ong, one of Manila Bulletin's Infotech columnist and contributor. Back in 1998, we started a one-hour Saturday radio program titled KULIT (Kaalaman, Usapan sa Lingo(ng) Information Technology) at DZAR Angel Radyo. We did it for fun, advocacy, not for money (as we don't get paid). Through it,  we were able to expose schools offering computer courses without the appropriate CHED permit. It was a huge issue back then.

In his column, Edison recalled an interview we made with Microsoft employee awardee Sam Jacoba about pirated software. Afterwards, fellow IT writer Jing Garcia also had his I.T. radio program in a government station.

I also had a Sunday 2 hour radio program then titled Jimmick where I just talk about anything under the sun and played music requests. Level-Up's Albert Dela Cruz and IT consultant Franchette Soriano pitch in whenever they had time, then for fun too. As my international trips increased then, I had to make the decision of leaving the radio programs.

Jerry Liao of Infochat also had his share of disseminating I.T. tips through an FM radio station. Infochat is the first I.T. program on television and cherished still the experience of hosting one episode then.

I thought I will had another chance of hosting an I.T. TV program at Net25 but after taping 2 episodes, it didn't pushed through (neither it got aired). I guess it was not meant to be as the Y2K and e-commerce lobbying efforts was at its peak then.

Wow... memories....