Exactly the same for me. This is how I got interested in programming. The fun part is that many of the people I met on the runescape private server forums 10 years ago I still talk to daily.  Complaining about college and our day jobs in IRC.  We all have the same history  and all sort of ended up in the same place.<p>Big chance that I still know you as well if I know your old nickname. Especially the programmer community was pretty cozy.