I was in high school when the demoscene took off in the 80s. It forever tainted my view of software development as full of lazy programmers not bothering to optimize code as hardware got better and better. Myself included.

Nice.

Check out this one though: https://demozoo.org/productions/13188/

Demoscene is still a thing!

https://syntaxparty.org/ is on in a couple of weeks if you happen to be in Melbourne.