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About twenty years ago I was trolling around the Internet explaining how Microsoft was going to screw over IBM and OS/2. I went by melling back then too:

http://www.skytel.co.cr/advocacy/research/1991/0817.html

And for hacking fun, I was enamored with Steve Jobs' NeXT computer. Among other things, I worked on the Tetris port:

http://www.artizia.com/tetris/contributors.html

A year later, I found my first developer job via the Internet and ended up in the NYC area. About a year out of college I bought a used 386 computer, got Linux running and a PPP connection, then I was back on the Internet.

Today, the Internet is just bigger and faster, while Steve's NeXT computer fits in your front shirt pocket.

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