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Thank you for making hacking on AOL punters and proggies accessible to a middle school kid in the 90s. Your project is the reason I’ve made an entire career of

Thank you for making hacking on AOL punters and proggies accessible to a middle school kid in the 90s. Your project is the reason I’ve made an entire career of writing code.

DoodahMan 3y ago
likewise man. for me it started with Gorillas.bas and a curiosity of what all this text meant and how it pertained to throwing bananas across a skyline. that later turned into VB3 and AOL. the rest is history. what a fun time in nerdy history. thanks Stratoscope, thanks Steve Case!
- qup 3y ago
  Holy shit, I never heard anyone talk about GORILLA.BAS. It's also the first code I ever read, in 8th grade algebra class w/ Mr. Seaman (serious). I didn't have a computer so I wrote a lot of BASIC in composition books, instead. I never got to run any of that code. Also DOS32.BAS represent! VB6 was all I wanted to do when I got my first PC. It took me like a month to download a warez copy overnight with a download resumer. My dad wouldn't let me use the phone line during the day. I used vb6 to make about 15k in high school in a slightly unsavory way. I'm learning rust now.
  - qup 3y ago
    It was bothering me that you had written GORILLAS.BAS as I remembered it as GORILLA.BAS. I hadn't seen it in 27 years, at least, so I wasn't confident. Anyway today I had a look, and we're both right. The game was called GORILLAS, but was in a source file GORILLA.BAS Published in 1991, 32 years ago. Dang. It was pretty new source when I read it. At the time, I figured it was old.
0xbadcafebee 3y ago
Same :> I enjoyed this bit of nostalgia: https://github.com/readme/featured/aol-programming-culture https://github.com/readme/featured/aol-programming-culture Remember jaguar32.bas?
- todd3834 3y ago
  What a great read! Thanks for sharing. Trip down memory lane to a very happy time in my life. jaguar32 and master32, :) swapping bas files was the only way I could actually do difficult stuff in the beginning

Thank you for making hacking on AOL punters and proggies accessible to a middle school kid in the 90s. Your project is the reason I’ve made an entire career of writing code.

DoodahMan 3y ago

likewise man. for me it started with Gorillas.bas and a curiosity of what all this text meant and how it pertained to throwing bananas across a skyline. that later turned into VB3 and AOL. the rest is history. what a fun time in nerdy history. thanks Stratoscope, thanks Steve Case!

qup 3y ago
Holy shit, I never heard anyone talk about GORILLA.BAS. It's also the first code I ever read, in 8th grade algebra class w/ Mr. Seaman (serious). I didn't have a computer so I wrote a lot of BASIC in composition books, instead. I never got to run any of that code. Also DOS32.BAS represent! VB6 was all I wanted to do when I got my first PC. It took me like a month to download a warez copy overnight with a download resumer. My dad wouldn't let me use the phone line during the day. I used vb6 to make about 15k in high school in a slightly unsavory way. I'm learning rust now.
- qup 3y ago
  It was bothering me that you had written GORILLAS.BAS as I remembered it as GORILLA.BAS. I hadn't seen it in 27 years, at least, so I wasn't confident. Anyway today I had a look, and we're both right. The game was called GORILLAS, but was in a source file GORILLA.BAS Published in 1991, 32 years ago. Dang. It was pretty new source when I read it. At the time, I figured it was old.

0xbadcafebee 3y ago

Same :> I enjoyed this bit of nostalgia: https://github.com/readme/featured/aol-programming-culture https://github.com/readme/featured/aol-programming-culture Remember jaguar32.bas?

todd3834 3y ago
What a great read! Thanks for sharing. Trip down memory lane to a very happy time in my life. jaguar32 and master32, :) swapping bas files was the only way I could actually do difficult stuff in the beginning