Last December, Andreas asked the following question:
Were computers part of your childhood?
When I was 15 or 16, I wrote a few science fiction short stories, printed by a small book publisher. It was 1988/89 and the web didn’t exist then: I used to write by hand or with a mechanical typewriter. :)
Having published some short stories, I started writing a real novel. Wow. :) It was not a science fiction novel. Leafing through a Philips catalogue, I found a strange kind of machine… something in between a typewriter and a real computer: the local shop didn’t have it so my father bought a real PC instead (a very expensive diskless 8088 PC with a monochromatic monitor).
I never published my novel but I came into the world of computing. :)
Hey, I didn’t knew you’re a writer! Are you still writing stories or was that a phase in your youth only?
“Writer” is a word too big for me. :) I started writing short stories (and a novel) when I was 15 and I stopped when I was 18. It was too hard for me to think like a storyteller and as an engineering student at the same time. :)