I like this article but I found myself kind of weirded out by the introduction (so here is my version of the intro).
I started using a computer when I was 7. I knew nothing and virtually nobody. It was 1988 and it wasn't easy to learn the ropes back then. This was before much of today's infrastructure existed. There was no broadband or world wide web or wifi or AOL. This was before VGA graphics and the Pentium processor. CompuServe still had more users than AOL. Windows was just getting started.