Now that I’m retired I have time to look back on my career and appreciate the many high points I’ve achieved and the adventures I’ve experienced. I rode that wave of software development for 35 years – and it was a real wild ride! 12 years ago I was awarded this Invention Achievement Award by IBM for my first successful patent application in internet technology. Actually, it was my second patent application, but the first one, in 1994, was filtered out before the end of the patent application process because it was not considered a commercially viable application (by the lawyers – sad story). The patent for which this award was given proposed an alternate technique for displaying web pages in a variety of human languages. I started writing software for the internet in 1993.