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***MSG FROM ANYI*** To: SilverBMW (541 ) From: 24601 Friday, Jul 9 1999 5:46PM ET Reply # of 543 e.mail from ANYI Friday afternoon: ANYTHING INTERNET CORPORATION ============================= July 9, 1999 MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT Dear Shareholder: The past week has proven to be exceptionally exciting for everyone here at Anything Internet. Not only is our company continuing to grow and mature at an rapid rate, we find ourselves caught in the midst of a history making development: going public. Originally scheduled to debut on Wednesday, July 7th our two market makers - Capital Bay Securities and Herzog, Heine and Geduld - found themselves overwhelmed with interest in Anything Internet's stock. Market makers, the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) and ourselves were inundated with thousands of telephone calls and e-mails this week. Plus, we are aware of pre-market orders ranging across a tremendously wide price spectrum. All of this has resulted in a large order imbalance and more interest in the opening of an OTC company than usual... if not ever. While all of this is extremely exciting and bodes well for our future, it caused a delay in our market makers getting their necessary final "green light" Wednesday to commence trading. Additionally, because it appears there are far more pre-market buy orders than sell orders, the market makers have had a difficult time determining the opening price. This order imbalance is a complex situation to sort out, and Anything Internet is not a part of this process. Hence, we will not comment on share price or potential share price. Further complicating matters this week, the NASD, the parent of Nasdaq, experienced a serious computer breakdown Thursday, July 8th. The Nasdaq computer system, which tracks volume and trading prices of all OTC companies, failed. The NASD was able to fix these problems late Thursday and the systems now appear to be working properly. With the computer problems hopefully now behind us the NASD and our market makers can now get back to the business of getting our stock up and trading. From a conversation with one of our market makers this afternoon, we are told that they will now try to open our stock up for trading sometime Monday afternoon. If we learn anything different prior to the first trade we will share that information with you through a similar communication. It is important to note that we are not at all a part of this process. We have complied with all applicable securities rules and regulations and, because we are not selling any securities to the public at this time, cannot not get involved with market maker pricing and trading policies. The market makers and NASD are entirely responsible for when the first trade occurs and at what price that trade occurs. Everyone here at Anything Internet is elated with the amount of interest Wall Street has shown in our rapidly growing company. We thank our current and future shareholders for their support and patience in getting through this complex process, and look forward to everyone's participation in developing an orderly and liquid market for our common stock and sharing in our continued success. Very truly yours, J. Scott Sitra President and Chief Executive Officer * * * The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a "safe harbor" for forward- looking statements. Certain information included in this press release (as well as information included in oral statements or other written statements made or to be made by Anything Internet Corporation) contains statements that are forward-looking, such as statements relating to the future anticipated direction of the high technology industry, plans for future expansion, various business development activities, planed capital expenditures, future funding sources, anticipated sales growth and potential contracts. Such forward-looking information involves important risks and uncertainties that could significantly affect anticipated results in the future and, accordingly, such results may differ from those expressed in any forward-looking statements made by or on behalf of Anything Internet Corporation. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those relating to development and expansion activities, dependence on existing management, financing activities, domestic and global economic conditions, changes in federal or state tax laws, and market competition factors. * * *