Programming before the internet required tenacy/grit. You had not Stack Exchange sites and no Google to find solutions to known problems, you had to solve every

Programming before the internet required tenacy/grit. You had not Stack Exchange sites and no Google to find solutions to known problems, you had to solve everything yourself. You could visit a friend and show your code, usually as print-out or loading it from a floppy disk. You'd learn programming by reading a book, by subscribing magazones and by hanging out with people that can programm better than you. Software would be distributed in print magazines for you to key in, either in a language like BASIC or Turbo Pascal, or in many pages of hexadecimal numbers that represent the binary executible (sometimes with a check sum, sometimes without).