[threeseed]

I know the feeling all too well having been on the internet since the days of Apple eWorld, Compuserve, Mosaic, Pointcast, Usenet etc. All these weird and wonderful visions of what the future of the internet was going to be where it was all about culture e.g. Phrack, BBS, .Net etc. and less about business.

You can still stumble across open source projects all the time which capture this ethos. Maybe spend some time helping them out. They definitely would appreciate it.