The Omaha Courier's Office

The Omaha Courier was undergoing a major shift in communications and networking throughout the course of the story. When Lincoln was brought on board to monitor Internet security, Greg told him that they had not had Internet access until recently, and email was even newer than that. Greg had obviously weathered the storm of technology transition as best he could, but it seemed that even he was struggling to keep up. The newspaper was also migrating over to new computer code due to the Y2K phenomenon, when computers that had been operating under a certain code that ended after December 31, 1999, could potentially stop functioning, losing data and information and freeze systems that kept the world functioning.

Lincoln worked downstairs in the Information Technology department. Eventually he became more interested in the rest of the newspaper's offices, no doubt because he felt connected to Beth...