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Reskeet with how old you are, using a vague proxy: Learning how a computer works with a little green turtle
Reskeet with how old you are, using a vague proxy: Folding the torn-off edges of dot matrix printer paper into little accordions.
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I swear LOGO is still more useful than some other languages I've had to learn along the way.
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I am "instead of buying actual programs, we bought magazines with the code printed inside and painstakingly retyped on our TI 99/4a" years old.
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We were the last class to learn to type in middle school on the IBM selectrics.
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When I was 22 I attended a presentation about Internet, what it is and how to use it. I found it neat + mostly useless
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I came here to get(good_time) and I’m feeling (while true: do attack) right now
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Wore jeans when playing baseball
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Got the Salk polio vaccine in school
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Grateful for Hal Abelson!
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I used to take pictures (on film) of my Atari high scores and send them to the “Hall of Fame” somewhere in Iowa.
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I still have the iron-on patch from my high score of Activision's "Grand Prix" on the 2600. Pretty sure I had one for Pitfall too.
Learned to read with Dick and Jane.
Video games have never gotten better than Pong
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Crikey. You're giving me flashbacks.
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The first online messages I wrote were at 600 baud.
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Wrote my first program in BASIC on a Teletype 33
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I received an electric typewriter as a HS graduation gift. My MA thesis was the 1st paper I wrote on a computer.