Why I Started Rural High Tech

Welcome to Rural High Tech!

Thinking back, I've had four "setting the stage" inspirations for creating Rural High Tech.

1. I grew with an intense interest in technology, but in a small town (Port Clinton, Ohio) that didn't have much high tech in it when I was growing up (in those dark days before public Internet access... even pre-personal computer). Not even a Radio Shack store. Now the average Wal-Mart (of which Port Clinton does have one) has more high-tech than I would have dreamed of back in the day.

2. In 1996, I discovered that Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs) were providing Broadband Internet Access via Wireless technology in rural areas that weren't likely to get wireline-based Broadband Internet Access for a long time... if ever. I was so fascinated by this development that it triggered a career change and I began writing professionally about Broadband Wireless Internet Access professionally in 1997 and devoted myself to writing about it full-time starting in 2000. (I also have a blog specifically covering the WISP industry.)