when a coworker asked how i remembered the argument for increasing java heap size, i just said "oh from a previous job" :X

Yup. Taught me sysadmin and programming. No way I would be where I am today w/o Minecraft

Literally why I got into CS

I chuckled for a bit, then realized you're probably right. It does get people familiar with it and probably helps a lot.

Very true. I bought and setup minecraft server hosting in middle school, which got me enough money to build my first pc in high school. And the rest is history. :)

No shit, AMD's opengl drivers on windows was so bad that it motivated me to try linux and become linux native years down the road.