Parent, spouse, IT & nature geek. Trans crone; She/Her, please. Important stuff: TransEquality / ProtectTransKids, AutisticPride, Neurodiversity, EDS BLM, Resist, ACAB, Pro-Abortion Proud AntiFascist, Capitalism is killing us all.
That may be somewhat biased if most people don't jaywalk and instead concentrate at intersections. California just made jaywalking legal, so we'll find out in a few years I suppose.
USENET
Specifically, alt.hacks, which concerned ways to simplify computing (as it was called) tasks - or everyday life tasks, too.
Especially the ob-hack.
There was a rule that to stay on topic, every post had to have a hack of some sort. An obligatory hack, or "ob-hack". So a fun sort of footnote to postings quickly evolved, as follows:
"...and that's how a bill becomes a law, and why so much of the Internet has already been privatized.
ob-hack: connect the turbo case button to the enable/disable pins on an option card to reclaim the IRQ or interrupt."