While on the mountain, Katz worked on his career writing for and about the Internet. That's where I first encountered him. It was just after the shootings at Columbine High when I, like almost everyone else, was trying to come to terms with children killing children. They flooded him with raw, painful messages about how they were treated by teachers and fellow students. At the same time, Katz befriended Jesse Dailey and Eric Twilegar online.
Geeks is their story.
Jesse and Eric helped Katz understand geekdom. They are proud to be outsiders, and they believe in the positive power of technology. Jesse and Eric are bright, are close to each other but have few other friends, never travel, hated high school, and want most in life to work with computers. They consider the Internet a separate nation with no regulation, no taxes, and certainly no restrictions. It is total freedom and total anarchy.