Technology and my beginnings as a writer

It's hard to remember a time when the Internet didn't exist, but for people my age, members of Generation X, I often think that we grew up at the perfect moment in human history. As a child, computers and cable television did not exist, so we spent the majority of our childhood outdoors, playing with friends, fishing, inventing games, hunting through card catalogs in the library, and staying out until the street lights came on. As a child, I did not spend large chunks of my day in front of a com