Yeah; GitHub is orders of magnitude better than Planet Source Code ever was, but the high of posting your sick new vb5 BAS with “A+++++++++” in the title and getting all the gloves isn’t really the same today.
Also, irc and newsgroups were amazing back then. I was just talking with some friends in discord about our days with mIRC scripts, in particular Invision 2 and Excursion.
I feel like AOL scripting was this weird subculture of teenagers who did VB vs the slightly older generation with their perl / C and Linux tinkering. I didn’t personally get into FreeBSD until FreeBSD 4, and I felt kinda late to the party. This was around the time, for me, when Knoppix was cool and the world outside of Windows felt magical.
Now, two decades later, instead of being some FSF dreamscape, sleep states and hybrid graphics on laptops cause problems across Win, Mac, and Linux, haha.
My only fear is maybe our generation of hackers are old now and cryptocurrency is the place where the naughtiness is happening and we don't take it seriously because we are older.
