txtfiles.com is having its 10th anniversary.  Read up on Jason Scott’s history, which parallels the development of computer and the Internet for a lot of people (myself included), and then waste your afternoon browsing through all the data he has saved.  If I had encountered something like this at 14 on my local BBS, it would have been amazing.  For fun, look at the Hacking UNIX section, or perhaps Programming.  (via)