In 1997 I was finishing high school, and about to commence undergraduate studies. I was &quot;interested&quot; in computing and Linux had passed 2.0 and was well on its way to entering the main stream. I remember obtaining a copy of redhat from my local library and a few very significant threads of my career to date commenced.<p>Java is also a child of the nineties and 1.1 I believe was the first arguably &quot;finished&quot; implementation. I remember the computer magazines were going off on about it at the time and I got a free Java IDE off a cover disk and wrote my first 2D canvas app.<p>These were the two main &quot;galaxies&quot; I inhabited for the last 20 years with various holidays here and there. The benefit of inhabiting such relatively &quot;open&quot; galaxies is that they provide easily accessible conduits to other galaxies too.<p>Thanks for the 90s nostalgia - very nearly brought a tear to my eye.