26 Years Ago, We All Had This Wallpaper

26 Years Ago, We All Had This Wallpaper
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Ah, the digital rain that convinced an entire generation of developers they were hackers just by changing their desktop background. Nothing says "I understand binary" like staring at incomprehensible green characters while your CPU struggles to render Minesweeper. Back when we all thought knowing HTML made us Neo, but in reality, we were just Agent Smith clones copying and pasting from StackOverflow before StackOverflow existed. The only pill we were taking was caffeine to stay awake debugging our 500-line "Hello World" programs. Free your mind? More like "free up some RAM so Windows 98 doesn't crash again."