When I left home to go to school my Father gave me his old Smith-Corona typewriter as a going away gift. He had used it in his undergraduate college experience, and then when he became an attorny. We had a home computer at home, but at that time we were unusual and things were just starting to go that way. I wrote poetry and I sensed that I preferred typing on a typewriter to using a computer. Later when I had to compose and re-write self evaluations and staff evaluations each quarter at the unusual university I attended, I totally changed my mind. I saw how great it was to use a word processing program where your work was saved and updated as you wrote, that you could revert back to at any time. And that once you wrote it you could use your composition as a prototype to help you write later documents about the same thing. I was a convert to the world of the home computer from that point on.
Still for a long time I was a weirdo about saving my work on a computer. I would compose poetry and lyrics and print them out and then destroy the evidence. I don’t know what I was afraid someone would be able to do with my saved writings but I maintained this pattern for too long. There came a time when I wished I hadn’t been such a looney and had just saved a copy of each piece of writing once. It would have saved me a lot of time. But I guess everything is a learning process.
After that with the blowup of the net, I astonished myself by becoming an online writer. I shared writing with other writers on community sites on the net. I posted to blogs and I saved my poems so others could read them later. I wasn’t alone in becoming an avid online writer. Just about everyone I knew started using e-mail instead of writing letters, and making more and more changes to favor the internet. Today, to go online and write is the rule rather than the exception. Boy has the world changed!
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