The Economic Times

At 15, a teenager building video games from his bedroom accidentally helped create one of the internets earliest coding communities

In the days prior to the internet, enthusiastic young hackers relied on floppy disks to trade their innovative programs. Bulletin board systems emerged as the first virtual communities, enabling programmers to connect and share knowledge. This spirit of collaboration and creativity laid the foundation for today's development culture, influencing everything from repository platforms to open-source projects.