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When I was a kid, we had one of those big chunky Macintosh computers in my parents room.
I was drawn to it like a moth to a flame.
I remember printing this picture of a black and white clip art style panda on that white printer paper with the hole punches in the side and thinking,
what sorcery is this?
Now the tech kept changing.
We eventually got a newer computer and dial up internet.
I'd spend hours on AOL Instant Messenger cultivating my way messages and gabbing with classmates.
In high school,
I got a cell phone and then we got the Wi-Fi so my parents could actually use their landline at the same time
as we were surfing the web.
Then came Facebook and eventually smartphones, though by that point I was like 22.
All this new technology, it sucked me in, completely captured my attention.