"I didn’t know I was this geeky until I discovered the online world through my office’s 2400 baud modem back in ’93." Marcel Moring
Following up on Hg’s post on Marcel Möring, here’s an interview with the man on his UK publisher’s website: ‘Family, I think, is the only concept of belonging that makes any sense. I’ve always thought the notion of a personal national identity slightly ridiculous. I was born in The Netherlands, close to the German border. Five miles to the east and I would have been German. Five miles to the west and a lot of Germans would’ve been Dutch. I can become an Englishman [..], or an American [..], but I can never be part of a certain family other than my own.’
