Who am I as an individual in the digital age, and what characterizes my journey so far

When I started school, it was popular with games that folded up and sounded pip-pip. They were called Game and Watch and it was my first meeting with the digital world. Then there was a ban at school against the calculator watch (not that any of us I class had one). At that time, you could hire a VHS machine to watch video. One day, it was possible to rent a TV game machine. We had it at home for just one evening and I was sold! We rented two games. I still remember today what the game looked like and what the characters said. One was Clean Sweep, a variant of Pac Man (though I did not know that then) where you had to vacuum up money bags after a bank robbery. The other was Spike and Molly, a variation on Donkey Kong.

In the mid 80's, a Commodore 64 appeared in my home, which was later exchanged for an Amiga 500.

My first meeting with computers in school was when I had turned 14 years, when the typing machines were swiftly replaced with electric machines and then replaced with computers over the course of three months.

The concept of the computer as a work tool came late. At high school (16-18 years old) we had data as a selectable subject, but no PC at home. My first home computer had two floppy discs, one for the program and one for whatever you wanted to save. Throughout my education, I submitted all assignments on paper. When I started there were three computers in the library to borrow - for the whole university.

I took a three-day training at university to get a (driving) computer licenses to use mail and using WebCrawler.

In one part of my university years I competed with other students about who could get the most email addresses.

I have always been the one who has tried to persuade my female friends to test Commodore and Amiga games. In terms of games and PC, I never started. Instead, the image editing was of interest to me. Cutting and pasting and jumping between different programs gave me a security that my female friends did not have. After university, I worked in the school world where the resistance to computers was huge (!) and e-mail as a tool between teachers and principal was non-existent. It's only NOW as teachers here get each computer.
I feel addicted on the digital world, more addicted than coffee and chocolate.