Some very ignorant remarks and assumptions of people who did not watch the full live BBC video interview relating to him, music & the internet and are taking snippets - of course the internet was estsblished before 1998!!! Some folks do not have a command of the english language and think they are computer boffins. He was not talking "Microsoft" for example - relative to music , him and people (audience) ... Very smart man - also get the interviewer's question to comprehend his response ... People who were born in the middle 70s & after, unless savy and forward thinking do not get: "David Bowie, an internet pioneer" YES, most definitely I concur; he was & is ... You're programmed already & not an individual (thinking tech facts blah) nor creative as he was & he was the 1st "Personality" to offer himself as an ISP - #Fact RIP Mr. JONES