Years ago, when Facebook was new and Orkut was taking its first steps, I decided to, once more, look up a good friend of my early computing career.

He was one of my first BBS-friends, helped me set-up my first PC compatible, lent me an external hard-drive and taught me a lot about programming. By the time I finally found him, I realized he died six months before.

We take our friends for granted. They are not.