Twenty-Two (Three) Years Gone...EXCLAIMER: I'll probably ramble here. You're forewarned...whoever you are that reads this.

I find it hard to express a lifetime's worth of living - not that I've yet lived what I consider to be a "lifetime's worth of living," but...well, you should know what I mean. How do you break down the story of your life - so far?

Watching the recent livestream with Richard Garriott has made me realize just how omnipresent the advances in computer technology have been in my short life...I'm of the age where I can remember the spread of the Internet - maybe not precisely when it started to become widespread, since (for me) it kind of suddenly appeared (and totally c...

Twenty-Two (Three) Years Gone...EXCLAIMER: I'll probably ramble here. You're forewarned...whoever you are that reads this.

I find it hard to express a lifetime's worth of living - not that I've yet lived what I consider to be a "lifetime's worth of living," but...well, you should know what I mean. How do you break down the story of your life - so far?

Watching the recent livestream with Richard Garriott has made me realize just how omnipresent the advances in computer technology have been in my short life...I'm of the age where I can remember the spread of the Internet - maybe not precisely when it started to become widespread, since (for me) it kind of suddenly appeared (and totally changed my life), but...I can remember a time where we didn't have the Internet. At least, not in any form like we do today - I remember looking up my Star Wars and Dragonball Z information in the mid-to-late-90s through the use of mostly text-based sites. Yes, those godawful things...

The livestream also reinforced how omnipresent - I like that word - and, perhaps more correctly, important video games and the growth of the industry has been in my life. I missed out on the early days; really, I've missed out on so much, it makes me sad...sad that, at this point, I really can't go back and play all the games I wanted to or heard about, but, for whatever reason, wasn't able to or didn't back in the day...not entirely sure where I'm going with this thought - it's just crazy to go from playing the SEGA Master System in 1993(ish) to playing Minecraft with someone on the other side of the continent, who I've never met face-to-face. What a strange, amazing world we live in...