In the 90s, the demo scene and the ZZT scene were populated mostly by 15 year olds working out of their bedrooms.
The demo scene spun out of the cracking scene, so it was very cyberpunk-coded. Groups had names like Razor 1911 and Ultraforce.
The ZZT scene aspired to legitimacy. To release a ZZT game you had to choose a "company name," and call yourself its "president."
The same naming conventions hold now that these scenes are mostly populated by 45 year olds, which makes it *way funnier*.
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