Rules schmools: what's the payoff? Words that live. Words that breath. Words that enliven, enlighten, entertain. Words that get under your skin and change the way you think. Words like: 

1 + 1 = infinity 

Add one child to one PC and the result is anyone's guess. 

The thing about computers is they go exactly where you want to go, and at your pace. You click, no one else. You're in control, limited only by your ability, your enthusiasm, and the resource at your fingertips. 

Add a simple modem to a PC, and 'the resource' is, quite literally, infinite. 

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"Where there is no vision, the people perish" - The Book of Revelations                    "It takes time and pressure to make a diamond" - Maya Angelou                    "If it's not good enough, you're not close enough" - Robert Capa                   "Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand" - Chinese proverb                    "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them" - Albert Einstein                    "Disarm with candour" - David Ogilvy                     "Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative" - Johnny Mercer                    "Dib dib doo, the cat's got flu, the dog's got chickenpox and out goes you " - playground chant                   "There's no point having sharp images if you have fuzzy ideas" - Jean-Luc Godard                   "No knowledge ever reaches the brain without first passing through the organs of the senses" - Laura Esquivel