Christmas, 1998 (1992 by Corrected Calendar’s reckoning). I’m staring at my very first machine – A Gateway Essential 400 with a 333 MHz Intel Celeron Processor. Quite weak, by today’s standards, but when I stared at the pre-bundled CRT and beheld the screensaver that came with the Underwater Theme, I was hooked. I felt as though I was staring at magic. At wizardry. My world changed forever, and it was the only thing around that could take my attention away…