The internet has rescued my social hunger more than once, and for that alone I should bend a knee and give thanks to the internet god, if there is one. The first time in 1996 America Online and Africa Online (the other “AOL”) combined to allow my wife and me to communicate through email for a full year while she lived in Nairobi with three of our sons and I lived in Cincinnati with our oldest. The two AOLs may have saved our marriage that year.