Manuel Höferlin left his first digital traces back in 1993 in the early days of the WWW. Back then, as a law student, the now 49-year-old was hanging out in Usenet groups, where he exchanged ideas with like-minded people about technical details of the Internet. At the time, Höferlin set up one of the first legal web servers at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, „something they didn’t think a lawyer could do,“ he says.