Flutterby™! : IUMA going away?

One of my "wow, this changes everything!" experiences must've been back in '94, when Aaron Spink and Robert Wilson had beat enough TCP/IP into me that we were finally pinging through the first fractional T-1 we'd bought from Sprint Link, and we had an open house at Chattanooga On-line (the networking bits of which are now highertech.net). Some kid, lost to history, came in and downloaded some Nine Inch Nails WAV files from IUMA. This was not music I associated with Chattanooga, and it was a great example that expressed some of the change I knew we were bringing. I've watched MP3.com and Napster come through as shadows of the excitement I felt that night, so there's a little nostalgic tear when IUMA goes away, and once again it's a reminder that "first to market" doesn't mean much. It's also telling that in their recent struggles, "Caught in those layoffs were all eight IUMA staffers". That was one of the other promises of that era, that a few folks with a dream could make a difference.