But, it gets better. Turns out that HE CREATED NORTON DISK EDITOR.
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Norton Disk Editor was a foundational piece of software for me – the first thing I knew that allowed me to go “under the hood.”pic.twitter.com/3z189vIGje
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This was what Inspect Element became later, an opportunity to see building blocks and poke at them – first awkwardly, then with confidence.
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Disk Editor might’ve been the first thing I was really good at. That, and Norton Commander, was my first discovery of the allure of mastery.
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Two examples: 1. My first job was writing a column for a computer games magazine. It was all about hacking games…
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…but it really was trojanhorsing teaching binary, hexadecimal, and how computers think and work – in the guise of messing with videogames.
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And I named that column, *obviously*, DDT: Diskeditor Dream Team. Here are a few issues:pic.twitter.com/iS54bWaY7A
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2. I won the heart of my first girlfriend by hopping on a train, Disk Editor in hand, and fixing her hard drive partition.
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Basically rescuing all her data, like the nerdiest of white knights in human history. That felt kind of amazing.
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(Nope, not sure what *this* says about me, either.)
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Anyway. I was Disk Editor’s #1 fan, and now I’m on the phone with its creator. Tell me this is not incredible.
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I think what I’m trying to say is: screw the adage and MEET YOUR HEROES.
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