The demo scene is one of the most significant, digital art communities. So many fond memories being on the periphery of that growing up. Programming and design for the love of the art. Deep marks for me. ❤️ demoscene-the-art-of-coding.net/2020/04/15/bre…
Remember getting Spaceballs - State of the Art on a 3.5" diskette and just playing that demo over and over again in 1992. This ran on a 7mhz processor!!
The following year I went to The Party 3 in Aars, as a 14 year-old kid, by myself. I saw Desert Dream on the big screen. I met Allan Odgaard and a bunch of other demoscene folks from DK that would be my core group of friends for years. ❤️
The following year, I setup Electronic Confusion, a BBS for trading demos and pirated Amiga software. Eventually running three phone lines into my tiny bedroom in Copenhagen, at age 15. janeway.exotica.org.uk/author.php?id=…
Doing computers for the love of it, rather than for the commerce of it, shaped an entire worldview that carried directly into open source. Even the concept of charging for Ruby on Rails seemed deeply offensive to me, and I place a lot of that with those demoscene roots.
