Comment by piperswe

> The type of kid who was setting up Outlook betas in 6th grade to try the new features.

Oh man, this brings up memories of me being inordinately excited about Office 2007 when it was in beta. I was in elementary school.

And memories of staying up late reading my collection of outdated tech books (Borland C++, UNIX SVR4, HTML 4, and the MS-DOS 6.22 manual were the big ones). Initially learning about programming and UNIX from those books were extremely formative for how I view programming today, and I suspect that's given me quite a different perspective on a lot of things (especially things like HTML & CGI) than a lot of other folks in my age cohort.