When Ethan Zuckerrnan went to Ghana in 1993 as a Fulbright scholar in percussion, he immediately tried to gel online; he was a Usenet junkie and eager to e-mail hisgirl-friend [now his wife]. But in bustling Accra, he found only one temperamental Net connec-tion.Zuckerman later became vice president of R&D at Web-hosting company Tripod, which made him a dot-corn millionaire, but he never forgot Ghana's inadequate communications. In July 1999 he left Tripod and in Febru.....<more>