[optimus_banana]

I remember when geerlingguy was just the author of all the ansible roles I happened to use, crazy to see how much of a "personality" he is now.

[squidbeak]

I remember when he was just midwesternmac and explaining tricky Drupal stuff. He's been brilliantly intelligible with everything he covers.

[geerlingguy]

Heh, few remember the very early days when I ran a forum on midwesternmac.com — I actually started out doing IT services and web hosting (mostly Drupal, some Wordpress) for local places.

The first project I did as an independent LLC was built out a network with a bunch of eMacs and a central G4 server for a law firm :P

[hackmiester]

I too took the path of working my way backward in the LAMP stack :)

[Jgrubb]

Totally, it seems like every tech thing I’ve gotten to in the last 12 years or so - Drupal, Ansible, rpi, a few other things I can’t think of right now - geerlingguy was there a few years before I found it.