TIL that in Japan in 1980s, you could buy computer parts at cheap prices from shopping arcades and have them made into computers
TIL that in Japan in 1980s, you could buy computer parts at cheap prices from shopping arcades and have them made into computers
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I remember magazines from the 80s where you could find code in BASIC for some little game. It's how I learned how to program as a kid.
Oh god, don't make any typos or you were going from screen to page, page to screen, over and over and over...
I started learning by editing gorillas.bas. Eventually created an copy of my elementary school's IBM system at a very basic level, from memory! Another kid my same age and I knew all the admin passwords and we would have hacker wars to lock each other out. We were 11. We also played a lot of a game called Chopper that was on the server. It was fucking awesome and i just tried to find it to link and I can't seem to.
Went on to build areas and program mobs/rooms/items with whatever the hell that language was for a low population MUD. I put in thousands of hours. As far as I know all that work is lost.
Anyway I could have been smart! Instead I discovered that girls are pretty and now I do labor for work.
Oh what could have been. Just kidding, no regrets.
You might be surprised, many MUDs were kept alive by usenet groups. Any chance you remember the name?
Lost Prophecy. Then the name changed and I can't remember it. I have a terrible memory. Admin was Aurora and then Eos. When I left I asked if all my areas could be made available for free download and was told no.
Yes! Basic Training in 3-2-1 Contact.
I remember typing a whole afternoon with a friend just so the screen did alternate colors, it was so underwhelming I think that killed any spark that I might have had for programming.
I didn't even have a color monitor :'( I would've been jealous of yours.
I almost quit programming too when my brother walked in one day as I was feverishly typing. "What? You're programming basic? That's for losers." Then he whips up a ski slalom game in a single incomprehensible line of apl and I was like wtaf?
Today I'm a professional dev and my bro is a perl hacker. I still can't understand a line of his code.
Some people are built different.