At the turn of the millennium, both the IT industry and corporate IT departments were suffering a major credibility problem. The old perception of IT as a bunch of socially retarded propeller-heads endured in many organisations, and was compounded by a view that those running IT did little except talk twaddle, cause them headaches and [...]

By the end of the 1980s, my teen programming proclivities had given way to more usual youthful pursuits like pubs, clubs, gigs and festivals. I’d decided to pursue a career in tech journalism and in 1991 started work at the IT trade weekly Computing.
Ironically, the magazine was still produced manually, with pages painstakingly laid out [...]