I showed my wife some Atari 2600 demos running on the MiSTer. She was impressed, and even more so when I explained to her why the effects were so impressive, the actual hardware constraints the coders had to work with/around to get that stuff on the screen. She's a big fan of movies like Hackers, so when I told her how it got started, with bored teenagers in the UK, France, Germany, Scandinavia, etc. looking to make their mark on the world through their computers, first with pirated software and later with standalone demos, it resonated with her fondness for that kind of tech-rebelliousness.

I never was and probably never will be a part of the demoscene, but it's inspired me for decades and I'm passing along that inspiration to people close to me.