Hey, fediverse (and bsd.network!)
I want to hear about your formative tech years!
What did you love in years past? What made you think "if we have something like *this* today, the future is certain to be amazing?"
@pamela I was playing a financial simulator on C64. The loader was written in assembler but one day the game crashed and I was back in BASIC and I could do a list. Turns out the whole game was written in BASIC, and I could change it!
So I read all the code, while learning BASIC (well, while learning programming) and found the what I would call these days the random number generator. I changed it to make me always win.
From there on out I was more interested in coding than playing.
@florian XD I used to do this, too! Or change whatever I wanted while typing in programs I found in books or magazines, and then spend ages stamping out the problems I'd introduced. :)
Having control over how things appeared and worked was really appealing, and a great way to learn and try more things.
