The company that the group started that day, Grand Junction, would go on to build Fast Ethernet, running at 100 megabits per second on ordinary telephone wire, ending Ethernet's bottleneck.
Chairman of Gloucestershire Local Enterprise Partnership's Logistics Sector Group, Mark Ryan said the benefits that improving the junction would bring to the county as a whole is "far in excess" of the cost.
Officers from the Central Motorway Police Group were at the scene within four minutes, setting up a rolling road block around junction 5 to stop the vehicle.