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HotBits is my earliest memory from the Internet after getting access as a young kid around 1996. Back in those days computer magazines would print website reviews and links, and I found HotBits in one of those. It was fascinating to a young kid who was into computers and physics.

Over a decade later I read the Autodesk File and it was a major inspiration for founding my first startup.

He was an inspiration to generations of hackers.