I miss Delphi as well even though I never got to use it for anything professional as I was very young at the time.<p>However I do remember very fondly how I came to know about Delphi 2 (or 3?).<p>Somehow I met this guy in ICQ and started talking about programming and about these (back then) very popular programs for &quot;hacking&quot; your friends: Back Orifice, Netbus, Sub7, etc. when he then says that he&#x27;s actually developing his very own trojan tool called &quot;Hacker&#x27;s Paradise&quot;.<p>Long story short, at some point he sends me the source code and starts to explain to me how it works.<p>Some time later time he realizes that there&#x27;s much more future in actually developing a tool for sysadmins so he renames the tool &quot;Master&#x27;s Paradise&quot;[1] and starts trying to sell it.<p>Sadly, I never knew or heard from him again, but I love that story because I was around 10 or 12 at the time and it seemed like magic to me be able to open the Delphi editor, drag and drop some buttons and have a fully functional Windows program at my fingertips. Just beautiful.<p>Also, the fact that I was getting source code from a stranger over the internet for a tool that would do such &quot;magical&quot; things as opening and closing the cd-rom tray of whoever you had the chance to infect, made me feel like part of the super elite hacker world (ha!).<p>[1]Now classified by antivirus programs not as a virus but as a backdoor tool: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.f-secure.com&#x2F;v-descs&#x2F;paradise.shtml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.f-secure.com&#x2F;v-descs&#x2F;paradise.shtml</a>