1) I remember buying that card with my first paycheck
2) Oh yeah, me and/or my buddy worked on that
As someone who was a little kid for most of the 90’s, all I can say is thanks to everyone who worked on the stuff — it was a truly magical time when every time your dad brought you to the computer shops they’d have some new demo set up they could do things that simply were not even imaginable a last time. Plus since I was not even a teenager yet, I didn’t have to learn about the battles between which model of rendering was better, it was just pure magic.
Hopefully we’ll speed things up again soon. I’m worried that there may be a generation at some point that doesn’t realize we’re in the future.