16 in 1998? You baby you!

I was 22 and married for a year! But that's around the time we first went on-line. It took ages for us to get any kind of broadband but we were dialing up on the daily to check newsgroups (alt.smokers.pipes especially) and browse and build our own sites. That's when I got my first job at a local tobacconist, and they had big plans for the internet. And that's when you could still believe one kid working on a Packard Bell in the back office could really handle e-commerce.

I agree that the digital sabbatical is a healthy idea. Especially when your day job involves working on computers as well.