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Just a couple days ago I was going through all kinds of things I made when I was 18. That was almost 20 years ago, and I had VB6 projects and a blog (we called them E/N sites, the word blog wasn't coined yet). The VB6 projects were AOL "progs"--things that interacted with AOL chat, mostly. For the blog, I started with html, then .shtml (server-side-includes), then discovered php. Built a whole CMS using flatfiles, which was the only thing I knew, then rebuild with a database...

I have full source of ALL of that!

I also discovered linux in that time, and one post mentioned running Mandrake 7.2--which I doubt was the first version I ran.

Those skills eventually turned into jobs. And some of my peers who were doing the same thing turned into lifelong, important friendships.

Anyway, just reminiscing. I had more fun computing in those few years than I've had in the whole time since. And even though it was for fun, it was easily some of the best-spent time in my life for $$$ in the future.