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I am forever in search of this incredible experience I had one summer in my late teens. It’s an indescribable feeling of freedom and wonder.

School was over, I could stay up late, and I had a computer in my room with broadband. The window was open, there was a slight moist breeze flowing in, combating the cooking heat of the AMD Thunderbird 1200. A train whistles in the distance. A car passes by on occasion. I’m on IRC and the Web, discovering new communities and websites. Finding some clever flash video that I bookmark to share with my friends later on MSN Messenger (we were Canadian so we congregated on MSN, not AIM).

It’s 2am and I just discovered people make total conversions for Diablo II. I won’t be sleeping this night.




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