I grew up in the early 90s in the pre-Internet days, so my idea of "punk tech" came from the old greybeards who wanted to hack on hardware, software and everyth

I grew up in the early 90s in the pre-Internet days, so my idea of "punk tech" came from the old greybeards who wanted to hack on hardware, software and everything along the way. I think that spirit still jumps around by curiosity and idealism, usually through some new technology (like Mastodon, or cryptocurrency in the early days) or is satisfied with goalless explorations of tech, like tilde.club or a lot of the early hackathons and maker trends (3D printing, drones, battle bots, etc.)