Mr. Jeff Cliff, BSc(CompSci) is a user on niu.moe. You can follow them or interact with them if you have an account anywhere in the fediverse.
If you don't, you can sign up here.
Hey, fediverse (and bsd.network!)
I want to hear about your formative tech years!
What did you love in years past? What made you think "if we have something like *this* today, the future is certain to be amazing?"
Napster. Going from listening to country/pop music because that's really all you could find on the radio to + mail order CDs you had no idea what they were before you bought them to... being able to sample the entire world's musical various cultures and subcultures as soon as you heard of it...you could tell not only that things like dubstep & machinae supremacy were in the pipe...but that everything outside of music was going to be different after that.
@jeffcliff oh heck yes! Napster completely changed my relationship with music! I tried something new almost every day for a long time... and it was definitely the first time I felt able to see trends forming and watch those musical ideas spread.