I’ve just heard the sad news that Steve Cisler died on May 15th. The San Jose Mercury News obituary is here and a special website has been set up to commemorate his life here. This is what I posted in the comments section of the CommunityNetworking site:

It seems like yesterday that Steve was writing for ONLINE and Database magazines, but it was decades ago. He was working at Apple; I was at BofA. His column, Micro Monitor, ran from the last 1980s into the early 1990s and kept all of abreast of the most recent developments in what we then called “microcomputers.” And when you think back, they weren’t nearly as “micro” as what we use now for computing! Steve was always ahead of his time, both in terms of his knowledge and understanding of technology and of his social conscience. He will certainly be missed!