I was already really interested in computers myself. My own explosion of interest was a game called WarioWare: D.I.Y. that let you make minigames using a built-in editor.

[–] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I'm old enough you have to replace "cracking neighbors wifi" with cloning our modem and "youtube" with funny pictures from irc homies, but same. Working around internet access restrictions was a milestone between fun things I could do with computers and how they really worked

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

What’s the modem clone about?

[–] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

They would unplug our isp provided modem and take it to bed with them, so I tracked down another one from the manufacturer and copied the eeprom from theirs onto it. It was a simpler time :p

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago

lol!!