Yes a major transformation took place. I anticipated a world where my C64 would be online with friends running humorous programs on it, making me giggle while

Yes a major transformation took place. I anticipated a world where my C64 would be online with friends running humorous programs on it, making me giggle while I worked, synthing music while we walked down the street. A few bad guys here and there with personal grievances, but the local cyberlord taking them out swiftly. As it turned out, based on the 90s and Windows, there are soooooo many bad guys out there it's unbelievable. And their ability to scale is sublime. It wasn't about one devil-eyed hacker in my cafe with a piece of malware on a green crystal.... More mundane and multiplicitous, it's 100,000 script kiddies in every country around the world trying password lists in every port on every IP address. Mostly to simply re-sell the data to someone who actually has a plan. And that's neverminding the concentrated, hybrid state/criminal enterprises operating out of labs with crazy budgets. So I think that's why everything just had to get walled to death, or rather sterility. I still giggle at images while I'm working, but the security of the channels through which a "hold my beer" .gif travels to get to me is astonishing. It would probably take a day just to verify a 4096-bit security algorithm on my old friend, the 6502.