Ah, "reality cracking"! The Fravia pages are what made me finally "understand" computers. I'd always been into them, and I could program them... but only after

Ah, "reality cracking"! The Fravia pages are what made me finally "understand" computers. I'd always been into them, and I could program them... but only after Fravia's reverse engineering stuff did I actually understand what was actually going on at the hardware level. Then the search lore pages really changed how I thought about the importance of computers and society. Years later I ended up with my first taste of "very minor internet fame" by getting some crazy high (for the time) Digg score for a blog post on finding a long-hidden cheat in the pinball game that came with Windows - https://www.mrspeaker.net/2006/01/07/hacking-pinball/ https://www.mrspeaker.net/2006/01/07/hacking-pinball/ (holy cow, 2006! Feels like yesterday!)... using the techniques I'd picked up from Fravia. Then again years later on the Mac: https://www.mrspeaker.net/2011/01/06/mac-hacking/ https://www.mrspeaker.net/2011/01/06/mac-hacking/ - with a post that ends "Thanks for all your help, Fravia.". Now I'm here in 2020, hacking away on something interesting and sipping on some good Irish whiskey... so once again, thanks for all your help, Fravia!