Lexzap's Blog

  Hi,  yup here is another post. So, I started reading paper books again… yeah, poor trees 😢, but I have found myself falling back into my gadget and doomscrolling ways again and had to find a way out. The overwhelming thinking and constant noise from our busy worlds just make it all a little harder to focus, to breathe, and to slow down.  So I picked up this wonderful book Shareware Heroes, many years ago, actually by listening to my podcasts (which I incidentally also really like to do for calming reasons), This Week In Tech, been watching and listening to Leo and the gang since I used to listen on my Palm Treo (ask your parents or maybe grandparents 😂. It is a story about the shareware industry the first digital distribution platform that started in the late seventies and flourished until the early 1990s when the internet finally took over. It was truly the first time where independent developers could publish their apps and games without giant investors and publishi...