August 2009
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Demonstration.
Back in the dim and distant past (well, 1987 to be exact), I was a spotty, chubby, geeky teenager, and I got into something somewhat different to most other spotty, geeky teenagers of the time.
While they were all off getting drunk for the first time, desperately trying to lose their virginity and generally being all teenage and obnoxious, I was part of the Amiga demoscene.
This scene contained...
Future.
Back when I was a kid, I used to read a magazine called Insight - it was basically a guide to everything futuristic, all the latest developments, and with an optimistic eye towards what was to come. Basically, everything pointed towards an atomic-powered utopia, cities with gleaming spires where there was no crime, no poverty, a benevolent world government, everyone travelled using jetpacks or in...