I owe my entire career to the fact that Winamp added the ability to re-skin. I had just graduated graduate school for international economics, and was working

I owe my entire career to the fact that Winamp added the ability to re-skin. I had just graduated graduate school for international economics, and was working for a government contractor who only hired me because I had a masters (they could charge the government more). Because of this, I literally had nothing to do and would just sit in the office. I eventually figured out an excuse to get my employer to buy Photoshop for me and I started learning it on company time. When Winamp came out with the update to add skins, I ended up making one of the very first skins (meshAMP) which became really popularly. https://archive.org/details/winampskins_meshAmp https://archive.org/details/winampskins_meshAmp (I am cringing looking at it now) This led to contract job with STB (to design interfaces for a TV Tuner card they had) and eventually 3DFX (paid in 3d video cards), and eventually a career change and a job as a graphic designer. Except, I was not a good designer, so I quickly learned to program (ASP.net and then JAVA), which led to Macromedia Flash, which led to Macromedia Generator, which eventually led to a job offer from Macromedia (now Adobe), where I still am (sadly, sans Flash). Anyways, thank your WinAMP!