My mentor at a small ISP in the early 2000s had friends and sites like this. I even remember Monkey.org specifically. I honestly feel like I grew up in the ruins of the old internet - too young to be a old beard and too old to be a digg/Reddit user and far too old to be a Twitter-er. Quake was too old and half-life was too new. I’ve always wanted to write about my lack of community - a sysadmin after sysadmins went extinct and the oldest of the devops - but I fear like the subject of the essay - no one would be around to read it.

I miss the old goons I grew up idolizing. Wonder where they are now - with their children and their CTO positions.

Don’t take community or friends for granted. Y’all Monkeys are luckier than you know.