@SilverDeth

> ...sitting with 9 pals, their PC's and cables, power strips and other cords all snarled up in the living room... pizza boxes open, cans of soda and beer everywhere,

Idyllic.

> We didn't realize it at the time, but that was about as good as life would ever get.

Remember in 1999 when Agent Smith told Neo that the late 90s were the peak of human civilization and everyone in the theater chuckled?