I have been a fan for many years, both watching the various incarnations of his TV shows and reading his online writings, In my early days of using a computer, before the Internet as we know it now, he had a forum on Compuserve which I followed. I even contributed (in a very small way) to one of his books, Ebert's Little Movie Glossary: A Compendium of Movie Cliches, at his request. It is hard to imagine movie criticism without him.