It was seriously magical to me. This was like 91 to 96 or so, so the internet was just starting for the mainstream and so getting demo versions of software was really cool. We used to ride BART into the city, and then the whole BART ride back after would be me going through my bag of swag reading all the pamphlets and looking at the demo disks. Half the stuff I didn’t even know what it was yet, but it fascinated me.

My mom wasn’t into tech at all, either. She just knew I was so she found out about the conference and took me. I was so lucky.