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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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
This was what Inspect Element became later, an opportunity to see building blocks and poke at them – first awkwardly, then with confidence.
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.
Two examples: 1. My first job was writing a column for a computer games magazine. It was all about hacking games…
…but it really was trojanhorsing teaching binary, hexadecimal, and how computers think and work – in the guise of messing with videogames.
And I named that column, *obviously*, DDT: Diskeditor Dream Team. Here are a few issues:pic.twitter.com/iS54bWaY7A
2. I won the heart of my first girlfriend by hopping on a train, Disk Editor in hand, and fixing her hard drive partition.
Basically rescuing all her data, like the nerdiest of white knights in human history. That felt kind of amazing.
Anyway. I was Disk Editor’s #1 fan, and now I’m on the phone with its creator. Tell me this is not incredible.
I think what I’m trying to say is: screw the adage and MEET YOUR HEROES.
Seek them out, and meet them – especially heroes who don’t know they are heroes.
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