Chapter 18: My Mentor

There was a time when I fell head over heels for computers and for the internet itself. In the last semester of ninth grade, my grades plunged. While other classmates snuck off to the internet café to play games, I went there to dig through the underlying code of websites and games, and even the file structures behind videos. Whenever I stumbled over jargon I couldn't read, I put in the hours to learn it. The web felt like an ocean of knowledge, every bit as rich as the so-called real world, if...