I have a degree in Electrical Engineering but I have worked in computer support, system administration, and software development for the last decades. I'm not an expert, but rather a generalist. "Generalist" was even my job title for a while. My first home computer connection was dial up to a system on the Internet. My first home Internet connection was dial up PPP but I was an early user of Roadrunner cable Internet. My first web browser was NCSA Mosaic on SunOS.
I was using the Internet before it was commercial, worked at one of the companies that predates the commercial Internet but helped start commercial Internet, and I've seen most of the technology people struggle with today as the technology was created.
I need to write about technology to help clients, friends, and family. I often help people personally but I both want a more permanent repository of information and something that can reach more people than personal visits.
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