Fiberglass

With eleven billion people scouring the Internet for fresh content, the daily tabloids and cat videos posted in a single year made up hundreds of exabytes - and was quickly nearing the zettabytes. With the sheer volume of information available, it was a miracle that it could all be indexed by search engines, the boatmen who ferried me to mystical lands within milliseconds. After getting my first laptop — a MacBook, a most delectable forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge — many days and nights were spent on Google, searching any and all questions that popped into my head.