Feeling Old...

While reading Inman's piece on the Cyborg era, I realized that the history of the webbed environment as it applies to writing is arguably short enough to be traced rather painlessly. It makes me feel old to think there is a technology that really isn't any older than I am. While computers have been around for decades, the high-tech web environments at our campuses was not nearly as prevalent even at the turn of the 21st century. The computer and writing conferences that Inman mentions are further testament to the importance of computers in today's classrooms.
"The introduction and use of technologies is always inherently social in nature, making any cross-reference points based on those technologies problematic, even in the best of circumstance," (14) Inman writes. It's true that I can't say today is the age of the internet, since my pen pal in Uganda has enough trouble getting a postal letter to me. We need, therefore, to think of technology in a more focused manner. My 58-year-old father doesn't have high-speed internet (and I've threatened not to visit since I can't keep up with my classes on dial-up), yet he is in IT and works with computers at work. What age, then, is it for him? Perhaps our domestic spaces are still in the third (or second) world, while our work environments are in the first world. Or perhaps it's vice versa. What are the pros and cons of this? Should the domestic space always be a sanctuary, and are we destined (as a society) to allow web technology to encroach upon these spaces as well?
Regarding the "Computers and the Teaching of Writing" introduction... To have a "historical document" that is from 1979-1994 supports my idea that web technology is evolving so fast that something from 1994 is "history." Normally, anything that happened in 1979 or up (my lifetime almost exactly) is not old or historical, but the web environment how we perceive history and its pace.
Bethany