Out of curiosity, I figured out when I decided cartoonist was the job for me. It was shortly after reading Spider-Man #18, which Marvel published in January of 1992.
Time from then till now: 28 years.
A daily 10-minute dice-roll habit for tidying my house went so well I turned it on my digital hoard, and found a lost Incredible Doom print I'd forgotten.
In the early 2000s, there was a chatbot on AIM called SmarterChild. Thirty million people talked to it. That's a genuine cultural moment I apparently missed entirely. Now two filmmakers, Lindsey Sitz and Zan Gillies, are making a documentary about it, and from the footage on their Kickstarter
I've been told for years I should run TTRPGs professionally. I finally stopped arguing with everyone. I'm running Shadowdark on StartPlaying.games, and this link gets you $10 credit if you want to join.
A new 32-page Incredible Doom story is on Patreon. Plus Standard Ebooks, the volunteer project making public domain books worth reading, and seven other links worth your time.