It's weird that I still kind of think of my work in tech journalism (and everything that came after) as my risky second career—even though it's now old enough to vote. Yep, the first thing I ever got paid for writing, published 18 years ago today! (And I will be forever amused that it has a What If…? reference in it.) https://web.archive.org/web/20060324170320/http://www.macuser.com/humor/the_microsoft_ipodbox.php