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I wish I had grown up in Finland! The demoscene was a faraway oasis of pure geek fun I never reached as a younger and thristy programmer.

• bane 7y ago
  The good news is that it's a global activity. If you live anywhere in Europe, there's like to be a party you can attend. Australia and North America has a few, and some great competition has come out of Japan in the last few years. More importantly, anybody can host a competition and have a party. The local party scene is really the heart and soul of the scene. Get 20-30 people together, hang out in somebody's basement for a weekend, and at the end have a competition with whatever people have had lying around on their computers. 1 - https://www.demoparty.net/ https://www.demoparty.net/
  • raverbashing 7y ago
    The parties might be not happening for a while now, but it is true that Demos are a very democratic activity and caters to a great breadth of programmers. Yes, there are hyper-specialized groups that can cram a full 3D-shooter in 64k but you don't need to do that. You can play with something simpler.
    • bane 7y ago
      Right! There was actually a pretty great Java demo at Revision this year.
• pjmlp 7y ago
  Not only Finland, as mentioned on sibling comment, it was all over Europe. I was into Portuguese demoscene, one of the guys in the group was trading floppies over post, we had another doing ProTracker sessions, and we had coding weekends with "bring your computer and do group coding".