Old Friends are not family, friends, or acquaintances. They cannot be bought or sold. They are not easy. Old Friends are always earned. They always result from mutual fear, respect, and need. They always wash the other hand. Sometimes Old Friends grow up together. Sometimes they never meet. Sometimes they form lifelong obligations in an earth-shattering second. Old Friends can be evil. They can be dirty. They can be mean. But one thing Old Friends never do is let down Old Friends. Ever. Because Old Friends always have the jump on each other. They always collect their debts. And they always remember. Chaos Computer Club e.V. "Without order nothing can exist -- without chaos nothing can evolve." In German and English. Miele Manufacturer of washing machines that can boil bloodstains out of clothing. O.J. Simpson would never have gone to trial if he had owned a Miele. Monastery of Christ in the Desert Desert monastery outside Abiquiu, New Mexico, that uses solar computers, cellular phones, and JavaScript to maintain a website that sells hand-made religious artifacts. "Brother URL" walks you through secure credit-card transactions designed by "scriptorium@christdesert". Netscape Communications Corporation Hybrid of the man who invented "Mosaic," the first web browser, and the man who invented Federal Express. Team uses industrial-grade common sense to turn the repugnant, stagnant, proprietary computer monopolists on their heads. Sun Microsystems Home to UNIX boxes, SunSoft, Java, HotJava, and a little-known "Open Windows API" whitepaper that promised to open up the Windows API to the public if Microsoft did not do so voluntarily. WWW Consortium Swiss labcoats who invented the World Wide Web in 1993 and maintain internationally recognized webs standards today. Xerox PARC Palo Alto think tank where graphical user interfaces, network computers, and email were invented 25 years ago.