LOL

My first program was in 2nd grade on an Apple IIe in basic. It was a program to check if a word was worth a dollar (a=1, b=2, c=3...)

It became a family activity (every one taking turns at the computer) every night to just type in words and see what they came out to. It was all very boring.

I was sure I was going to win.

I lost (well 2nd place), to the kid with 6 older brothers, who had that many years of building out the family list.

Reading this, I thought back to what made me want to become a programmer, and for me it was games too. Why did it look so cool when I was young? I don’t remember well what game it was. I wasn’t the Doom generation, and it wasn’t Pokémon either. I think it was a game called Hegemonia-region of iron. It was a cool spaceship game set in space.

Lovely, I remember the first cracktro that blew my mind long before I actually got in touch with the demoscene.

It was an ACE cracktro for International Karate that was putting huge things in the borders, something about it stuck to my mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ODIb5r_fS8

(2015) Even links to the HN discussion at the time (89 points, 59 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8837545

We could have crossed paths back in the day. Those 25c unlimited local calls felt like such a steal.

Bro what is this? :D

%s/Am/Was/g

Best case, we are sitting in a tree, sawing off the very branch we're sitting on. Like we're having fun at a bar, never knowing when this particular one will close. While watching our friends, family, and everyone else out there lose their jobs, mentally we're all ready for that Friday 9 am "three person 1:1"