The article captures the early thrill of tinkering—when computers were personal, hackable, and fun. Rebels and misfits built things they owned and understood, far from the sterile data centers run by the pocket-protector priesthood.

Then the web came and turned PCs into terminals again—centralized, locked-down, dull. The mainframe returned in disguise.

The maker movement has been our way back—3D printers, microcontrollers, Raspberry Pis. We’re finally rebuilding what we lost.

Vive le cyberdeck!

I liked this piece. It is well written and sets a nice tone while putting some nice history out there many will find of general interest.

It ends... well, yeah. The next entry in this series should be good.

Also. Star Raiders is the greatest Star Trek game ever written. Change my mind.