David Winder, commonly known as Davey Winder, is an English people IT and Information Security freelance consultant, writer and journalist.
Biography
After viral
encephalitis left him severely disabled, he first got a computer to use video games to improve the coordination in the remaining arm in which he had the power of movement. He then used a word processor to learn how to read and write again. After experiments with
Prestel, he found an early British
online community, CIX, in the late 1980s, before direct connections to the internet were cheaply available outside academia, and this provided him with a new social and business life. Winder was contacted through CIX email over the internet by technological culture writer
Howard Rheingold, a habitué of The Well, another early online community-based in the
United States, and eventually the two met in person at Winder's home; the meeting is described in Rheingold's book,
The Virtual Community.
A prolific author himself, Winder has had more than 20 books published. The most recent, Being Virtual, in conjunction with the Science Museum, in London which explores the realm of virtual identity and is part auto-biographical in nature. Winder is now fully recovered and no longer needs a wheelchair.
Winder has contributed regularly to newspapers and magazines including Computer Weekly, The Guardian, The Times, .net, PC Pro, and Forbes.com.
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