Last week's Ms Internet pageant hosted by Webgrrls bore little resemblance to a beauty contest, where scantily clad, beautiful women flashing million-dollar smiles strut the catwalk.
Suggesting that a swimsuit parade be included probably would not have gone over very well. In fact, the mostly male judges were sequestered in a corner and told to judge the women strictly on their resumes and not their curves.
So imagine Backspace's surprise at some of the things said that night by Ms Internet 1998.
'You know, I don't have tits and I don't have a butt, but I have brains,' last year's winner Christine Choy said as she embraced this year's elated winner, Tracy Yue.
'But Ms Internet 1999, she has tits and a butt - sexy and brainy!' she said.
'Putting her other arm around Ms Interactive's stand-in, Sylvia Douvlakeris, Ms Choy then declared, 'These women are single and also interactive!' It seems on-line retail shop adMart is as resourceful as its proprietor, Jimmy Lai.
If you go to the shop's Web site or check out the adMart advertisements, you will notice that besides IBM and Legend computers, the semi-cybershop is also selling Compaq PCs and Taiwanese computer-maker Mitac's systems.