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Everyone's doing when I was 16. When I was 16 I read magazines about computers I couldn't afford, read Pascal code from a book that I wrote out in hand with pe
by throwaway167 3y ago
Everyone's doing when I was 16.
When I was 16 I read magazines about computers I couldn't afford, read Pascal code from a book that I wrote out in hand with pencil as I only had 2 hours time with a classroom computer each week, and almost died when getting a graphing calculator that could be programmed.
- suzzer99 3y agoI had a Commodore 64 and could dial long distance for free using hacked Sprint codes. For a brief moment in time, my BBS had the best collection of cracked C64 games in town. But then I slacked for a few months and the game passed me by.
- spogbiper 3y agoGod that takes me back. Spent many hours writing programs on some cheap Casio and then for Christmas one year (15 or 16 years old) I received an HP 48s and it was a whole new world. Good times.
- Aromasin 3y agoWhen I was 16, I spent way too much time playing Leagues of Legends. My life would be so much easier now if I started practising what I do now that early!
- dehrmann 3y agoWho's Pascal?
- teddyh 3y ago<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pascal_(programming_language)&oldid=1190270744 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pascal_(programmi...>
- geek_at 3y agoMy dad worked for IBM in the software group but he was able to get decomissioned (usually broken) Thinkpads for me to tinker with. This is actually how I started my MSP company in the early 2000s. I was selling webspace hosted on Thinkpads with broken displays running Debian Woody (and Sarge) in a ventilated book shelf in my room. Good times
- qup 3y agoWoody was my first Debian, I think directly after I switched from Mandrake. I was...17, I think.
- nwsm 3y agoWhen I was 16 I wrote games on my TI-86 in TI Basic to play during school, and learned VBA to make silly desktop apps (one would open a bunch of internet browsers to a youtube video of mine- a montage of Call of Duty clips that I wanted more views on).
- MisterBastahrd 3y agoWhen I was 16 I was coasting to the State Science Fair on a fishing game I'd written two years earlier. Taught myself programming with the GW Basic language book. Totally worth it because I got to miss most of a day of class each for the county and regional fairs, and two for state.