Farewell, Ben Chappel
I first met Ben at House of Web, a geek-hive outside UMD in Maryland in 1997 or 1998. He died, and is now no longer with us. He is survived by everyone he ever met, because he was just that kind of person.
His homepage was one of the first of its kind, back when we were all pioneers homesteading and claiming a new medium as our own. That something as obvious as death could happen to one of us is unthinkable at times, all too possible the next.