I learned to write code because of a very different internet, and I feel like if I'd grown up with the internet we have today I never would have bothered. Inter

I learned to write code because of a very different internet, and I feel like if I'd grown up with the internet we have today I never would have bothered. Interoperability and disintermediation were such powerful, intoxicating concepts that I turned my entire life around and started writing software for a living. These days, except for the money, it feels like a mistake.