I heard from José Ramón Marcos’s death in those windy days of April. I retained that painful piece of news as if was a deafening noise that gradually was diminished until stop. Many hours for remembering came later; long conversations and images came to my mind. With his death, somehow expected, I felt the same thing as when close friends pass away; that feeling of emptiness for loosing a friend.

Any day now, an organization or institution could come up with the idea of marking World Webmaster Day. The webmaster, a significant figure in the digital and virtual context of the early 21st Century, has been occupying a place in the social work of mankind since last century, particularly since 1989 following the opening of the World Wide Web, when the first webmasters worked as administrators of systems capable of producing hypertexts.

Those first webmasters were in charge of uploading contents to the Web and keep the research information provided by scientists updated. As the network increased the number of users and hooked PCs, the role played by the webmaster took on a new charisma, since he had to convince the people to get in and publish their documents on the Web, according to the forerunners of these systems.