Please suggest some alternatives as well.
Is this use of '–' OK?
"In 2006, when I was fourteen – early technological period for us – I got to see how a computer looked like, till that moment I had only heard rumor about computer."
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See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Parentheses-like_use for this kind of use of the em dash – Henry Dec 15 '15 at 08:59
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Related (if not a duplicate). – J.R. Dec 15 '15 at 09:24
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" In 2006, when I was fourteen -early technological period for us- I got to see how a computer looked like, till that moment I had only heard rumor about computer."
Is fine. It means the same as
" In 2006, when I was fourteen (early technological period for us) I got to see how a computer looked like, till that moment I had only heard rumor about computer."
BTW, try replacing how with what
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