Maybe there are “better toys” these days. When there are 3D printers or Raspberry Pis with LED panels, let alone smartphones with lots of sensors, then maybe writing xroach isn’t that interesting anymore?

Also, at least in my experience, there used to be the PC. The single one computer in the house where nerds could spend all their time. That was the single place where “the magic” happened, that single thing you built a connection with. Today, there are a ton of devices (at least in “western” countries), tablets, smartphones, smart-TV, laptops, PCs, consoles, whatever. So it’s not only “3D printer vs. xroach” (a matter of “quality”), but also the sheer number of things.

It certainly got more boring. The fact that I run a tiling WM where there’s essentially no pixels left for such toys, doesn’t help either.

I don’t know, good question. Where did all the fun go?

Maybe we simply don’t need xroach anymore when you can spend countless hours on imgur.com.