Is the internet an enemy of writers' creativity?

George RR Martin's "secret weapon" is a separate computer without internet access on which to write his novels. Are online distractions killing your creative flow?

We have just discovered that George RR Martin uses Wordstar 4.0 running on a DOS machine to write his novels. For those of you born in the age of the internet, DOS is short for the archaic Disk Operating System, and Wordstar is a character-based "early word processor which used unique control-key sequences" and was popular during the early- to mid-80s (thank you, Wikipedia). It looks like this:

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