The Twentse Demoscene was awesome, but very small. As far as I knew, I was the "only coder in the village" :) I remember going to copy parties from The Raven

The Twentse Demoscene was awesome, but very small. As far as I knew, I was the "only coder in the village" :) I remember going to copy parties from The Raven (1992?), cycling 10 km with ~100 floppy discs, wondering whether some bit would shake off whenever I hit a bump in the road. I still get goosebumps when I think of the time when some guy from a nearby city demoed his own Adlib player and 60fps flat shading 3d renderer! Meeting people in person to share code (or to keep it secret), reading paper magazines (Dr Dobbs) buying books on holidays (PC Intern anyone?, Ferraro, Foley), ah those were the days :)