Same era, same net send! But at the International School of Geneva. Good to know that word got around. I also knew how to change the process name, so that librarians listing everyone's frontmost process with MasterEye wouldn't realise that students were playing games. Or type =rand(200,99) into a Word document (some idiot classmate then decided to press print). I was still just a nerd though.

When I had a 1st gen iPod, I was teased for it. But then the iPod became popular, and I knew how to swap hard drives and screens around to do repair. That's when "I suddenly went from unpopular nerd, to guy you want to know."

I went off to study Electronic Systems Engineering, exchange programme to California, Working Holiday around the world, 4 years in Taiwan, and am now working as an embedded software developer in New Zealand. But for me, it all goes back to iPodLinux as a teenager. I'm grateful for early-2000s Apple, yet also disappointed at how difficult phones are to repair these days, and how that will prevent the next generation from tinkering the way I did.