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I would go further and state that many probably owe gaming for their tech career. In the dark ages, installing and running a game could take significant technic
by 0cf8612b2e1e 3y ago
I would go further and state that many probably owe gaming for their tech career. In the dark ages, installing and running a game could take significant technical effort. Scouring forums and looking for magical configuration or patches that could make it work. That technical knowledge builds upon itself.
- no_wizard 3y agowhen games were far more open to supporting mods and had big communities around it, its where I first cut my teeth programming in earnest without even realizing it. At some point, the programming became more fun than the playing for me
- dvngnt_ 3y agonow kids are modding roblox and minecraft
- PawgerZ 3y agoMy programming journey started in like 2013ish with making guns on roblox which eventually turned into working on Minecraft mods.
- heywoodlh 3y agoIt’s actually really cool (to me) the irony that both of these games are over a decade old — ancient in the computing timeframe, I would argue — and so widely appealing to all age ranges. Roblox released in 2006 [0] Minecraft officially was released in 2011, with a public testing release in 2009 [1] 0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roblox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roblox 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft
- delive 3y agoAgree! What got me into programming was building/running my own Counter-Strike server and corresponding stats website. Now with companies running their own servers internally, that isn't nearly as common.
- acjohnson55 3y agoI'm old enough to remember trying to get IRQs and DMAs set, and trying to figure out whether I should use Tandy or EGA mode.
- esafak 3y agoSome even disassembled their games to modify them ;)