> The 1990s were a propitious time for this sort of hobby computing. There were really two computing bubbles in this era. The one people talk about was the dot-

> The 1990s were a propitious time for this sort of hobby computing. There were really two computing bubbles in this era. The one people talk about was the dot-com boom, when the potential of websites hit the venture capital market, and startups like Amazon got going. The other was an almost ideologically opposite sort of economy, with the rise of Linux, Perl and Apache, a market in which your wealth, in the form of public standing, was proportional to how much you had given to the community, in the form of code. Jeff Bezos got to be a billionaire out of the 90s, but thanks to my software, I got to marry Emily Short, so you could say we both got to be the world’s richest man. Awwww :-D