If I'm going to wax nostalgic about what I thought hacking was as a teenager, then I would bemoan the decline of IRC. I know many of us are still on Freenode, b

If I'm going to wax nostalgic about what I thought hacking was as a teenager, then I would bemoan the decline of IRC. I know many of us are still on Freenode, but I'm talking about the wild-west days of Undernet and Dalnet. I met some interesting characters back then. And it was my first exposure to people I would describe as hackers, since there were none I knew in real life. I was friends with a guy who was convinced the military was controlling his brain with microwave radiation. He was an amazing coder, and he introduced me to coding actually.