Making of Second Reality / Future Crew

This is awesome.

I grew up to the sound of Panic and Second Reality, frequently staying up all night trying to download the latest from nic.funet.fi, using a crazily overloaded 64Kbps bitnet<->internet gateway for the entire state, and then transfer the last mile via my (then) "ultra fast" 1200bps dial-up.

I haven't been following the demoscene lately, but there are some folks still doing amazing things. The last that I saw was fr-041_debris, developed by Farbrausch, and announced during Breakpoint 2007: http://j.mp/11ETcY0