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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Greater London, UK
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No DARPANET for me. I was sitting in the Uni lab using JANET to log onto a machine in another Uni to play a MUD :-)
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Join Date: May 2005
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Miamisburg, OH
Posts: 1,322
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I'll remove the files from my site. That should help things a lot.
As for aging myself with computers, I remember hacking into a GE computer back in the 70s to play the old text game Dungeon. I started in computers we still had punch cards for our contracts. A word of advice, never, ever drop a tray of Hollerith cards. Web site - Cheese Weasel Logistics - www.cheeseweasel.net Twitter - @CheeseWeaselGMZ For user created content check out www.d20pfsrd.com and www.cheeseweasel.net For video demos of Hero Lab go to http://www.youtube.com/user/TheChiefweasel?blend=9&ob=5 |
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Muskegon, MI
Posts: 2,975
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Eh, ya all got me beat. I didn't get my first modem until somewhere around 1992 (2400 baud FTW). Due to location I couldn't even dial a BBS because they were all long distance calls. I had to use AOL 1.0 for Windows 3.1 and/or CompuServ 1.0 ... can't remember which was first but we went back and forth a couple times.
No one told me I could program computers anything beyond HTML at the time so I didn't even think about getting into it until college ... sadly college did not help actually giving strategies to learn stuff. It was all mostly "copy this from the book". When you asked "Why?", because that's what the book says you should do ... :-/ The professors I got the most out of were the ones that could answer the question of "Why should we always 'using namespace std;' in C++?" With my preferred answer of "You shouldn't, and those that use it for EVERYTHING are just lazy." I could have good conversations with them; the rest were all just book zombies. |
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: South Riding, VA
Posts: 841
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Ha. I remember playing with a PET computer in elementary school and getting bribed with an Apple II+ computer in exchange for getting bar mitvahed.
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