Nevertheless, she persisted
I had to be practically dragged into the era of computers. Back in 1986, I was perfectly content with my 3-line-memory-erase electric typewriter; it was the bee’s knees, as far as I was concerned. Of course, once I got my fingers on an actual computer keyboard, there was no turning back. I was amazed at how fast I could type on that thing, and how easy it was to rewrite my words to improve them. I was a convert once I got my first taste. Not so, however, with my first website. It was a wiki — an online site created and managed collaboratively by a group or community. Setting it up was an assignment during the first term of my master’s program (2004) and it ended in tears: mine. I just could not figure out the programming or the structure, and I hated the professor for putting me through such techno hell. I felt incompetent and inadequate, but, thanks to a couple of classmates, I survived the ordeal. While I wouldn’t say that that experience put me off technology, it surely d...