Tony: I was not. Sidney: Don’t give me that old codswallop. You were counting your money.

A select few of the smaller, highly focused, Web-oriented businesses like Thomas “Dolby” Robertson's Beatnik—online as Headspace since 1993, incorporated as Beatnik in 1996—came through, thanks to a coherent business model, more than adequate venture-capital funding, and the lofty goal of “sonifying” the Web.

A four fire-alarm fire ripped through a row of 2.5 story frame dwellings during the early morning hours

Patterns of evolution in the two families, however, are strikingly different.