My first uni year roommate had a similar background: numerous cute projects in vb, along with some real deep math. I was different as my dad was a geek I never had anything but linux at home.

I fondly remember trying to explain why Emacs doesn't have a green run/build button :-)

Vb was easy in a way *nix never was!

Me too.

>Planet Source Code

So many good memories of browsing that auto-scrolling list of new projects, downloading and trying something different and learning by seeing new code.