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I was 15. I was trying to run a small bbs on my Commodore Amiga. We were learning Turbo Pascal and wondering if this new "object oriented" approach to programmi
by noonespecial 16y ago
I was 15. I was trying to run a small bbs on my Commodore Amiga. We were learning Turbo Pascal and wondering if this new "object oriented" approach to programming was going to catch on. (I think TP5 was the first realeas to include oo extensions.)
The wall fell. I was in Germany. It was nuts.
- elliottcarlson 16y agoIt wasn't until a good couple of years later that I ran my own BBS - I was running Iniquity and remember the hours upon hours spent on creating ASCII art for all the screens. That and the fact that I ran the BBS on my only phone line, meaning it was a 11pm to 6am only BBS - good times.
- mgedmin 16y agoTurbo Pascal 5.5 With Objects was the first version to support OOP, IIRC. It was the version I started on, when I was 11 in 1991. The Internet didn't reach me until about 1995 ...
- takameyer 16y agoI was in Berlin, age 6, also at the fall of the wall. Father was in military intelligence for US. I think at that time I was getting games to run on our computer using MS-DOS.