In the 'eighties, I noticed that quite a few Achter- hoekers still maintain contact with the descendants of the emigrants. My own few attempts to contact in such a manner my family Heesen were unsuccessful, and so disappeared the information and photos of Uncle Sander under the dresser. In 1995 I came into contact with the Internet and that would eventually lead to the reappearance of Uncle Sander's things. But first something about the Internet. In order to explain what the Internet is, we must begin with the connections between computers.
Computers can exchange data via telephone lines.
To do so there the electric signals of computers are translated into beeps, that translation is done by a machine called a modem. Whoever has by accident called a fax machine knows these beeps. As more and more computers be- come connected in this manner, we are able to speak on the computer network. At the end of the 'sixties, the American government developed a plan to set up a computer network for the most part untouchable by, for example, sabotage, trade wars, or natural disaster. So was created eventually the Internet.