drzy » hackers http://www.drzy.com incriminating evidence Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:09:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Apple ][‘s made a generation of programmers http://www.drzy.com/2007/05/20/apple-s-made-a-generation-of-programmers/ http://www.drzy.com/2007/05/20/apple-s-made-a-generation-of-programmers/#comments Sun, 20 May 2007 21:10:20 +0000 rosicrux http://www.drzy.com/2007/05/20/apple-s-made-a-generation-of-programmers/

This video is of a 7 year old back in 1982 talking about programming on some local access show. He demonstrates coding BASIC on an Apple ][.

This strikes a chord with me, because around the exact same time, at around the same age, I went to a summer camp for budding computer nerds in the deserts of southern California. It was the same scenario too, we were kids learning BASIC on Apple ][. Our imaginations were fueled by shows like Whiz Kids and movies like WarGames. Not to mention the explosion of science fiction novels at the time. I still have the binder I used to map out my programs and keep printouts of them some 25 years ago.

I’ve never shaken that love of computers and programming, and I’m glad I got to grow up with it. Now that computers are ubiquitous, “hackers” aren’t such special snowflakes, but I still feel the nostalgia of when it was a budding science and I was still a bud myself.

Man, this website really is turning into a blog. So be it.

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