Look, I wanted to keep this debate going, but your reference to MULE totally derailed my train of thought. Damn you, now I’ve got to go find an emulator and see how bad the C64 days were all over again.

I’ve only been on the web since the mid-late 90s, but it has changed so much for the worse, perhaps not in usefulness, but in… Idealsim? I remember reading the hacker manifesto and it moving me. That crappy little text inspired so much in me. I just hope that in todays overly commercial, algorithmically driven, ML curated world, there is room for life changing chance encounters.