Why I Am a Programmer
A nostalgic first-person account of growing up in a pre-mainstream Internet world, where a handful of kids traded pirated games on floppies and dialed into BBSes. Discovering Denthor's ASPHYXIA demo-coding tutorials on a random BBS changed everything: the author stopped wanting to play games and started wanting to make them, setting a path toward becoming a programmer.
I wasn't even into my teens yet but I definitely knew at the time that I didn't want to watch demos or play computer games anymore. I wanted to make them. I wanted to be elite. I wanted to be a programmer.