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- mg330
Mid 80's, around 3rd or 4th grade, on a Radio Shack TRS-80 given to me by my grandfather. He was so into computers and engineering.
The only thing you could really do with it was write programs or play games from a cassette tape.
- vwsung18t0
it was in 5th grade computer class where i learned qbasic
- Jaline0
html?
Windows?
How old are you?
12?!!!
When I was a lad HTML didn't exist!
moth
(May 29 07, 04:52)I was around 10 years old at that time when I was into html. 1997ish.
- Jaline0
After that came the days of Oregon Trail. I always died of cholera.
T-Dawg
(May 29 07, 05:57)that was the best!
- k0na_an0k0
i played that super shitty pc game trying to get your wagon/family across the country to california without dying. that game was awesome.
in 10th grade we had our first real word processing class. we were supposed to turn off the monitor and type a paragraph without looking at the screen.
i turned off the computer (it was one of those shitty ibm machines where the monitor was sitting on the box on the desk) and i typed the whole lesson on a machine that wasn't even on.
the whole class laughed.
who's laughing now mother fuckers!?!?! i'm like a 007 of computers now!
- ********0
Had a commodore 128k in the crib. Played games on it n stuff. Did a lil Basic.
At school we had machines that played Oregon Trail on.
I could never get to hunt those animals properly and I never made it to my destination.
Oh how I wish I could play that game again. I'd kill every rabbit and buffalo in sight. And eat good...real good.
- ********0
I had a Commodore 64 i think...just games, then the PC with windows 3.1 to do homework on Textra.
- k0na_an0k0
dude i sucked at oregon trail.
i could never shoot the fuckin deer and my family members would always die. haha.
i used to play that in 3rd and 4th grade. back then that was better than sliced bread!
- Jaline0
^ We had like one computer and everyone would takes turns playing it in class.
- ********0
kona I suspect we are aged similarly
- AndyRoss0
This first time I worked on a computer, it wasn't even in the same state as me.
I was in High School. We had a terminal, which was like a huge steam-powered typewriter,with a big roll of paper in it. You dialed the phone to some place in the next state, where the computer we shared time on was. Then you put each end of the phone handset into a tight-fitting rubber cup on the side of the terminal. This was the modem.
You typed a command line into the terminal, and hit return. The message went down to Ohio, where the computer was. A few moments later, you'd get a response which would type out on the terminal. There was no screen! Having something in another state type something out right in front of you seemed like magic!
Each time you got a response from the machine, you also got a number back, in the margin. This number was the number of computer cycles you had used--usually a few dozen, or so. The school paid for computer time by the CPU cycle, and that was how you could track your account!
And yes, I do own and know how to use several slide rules!
And no, I'm not older than water. Older than booze, but not water!
- defanddumm0
Apple IIe graphics.
It was cool to make atari-like plot based gfx back then. I made a bowling game in school.
Hplot 72,70
When I found out about high res I was like...woah.
- k0na_an0k0
we had 3 computers back then in the library jaline. a whole school had to take turns at that game.
gerald. i'm pretty sure we're about the same. haha.
*looks in mirror at gray hairs
- Ramanisky20
I programmed games on the Commodore 64
games like Centipede & Space Invaders
I typed pages upon pages of code straight from a gaming magazine
and low and behold the games actually worked ... that was so awesome
- ********0
Every lunchtime there would be a scramble to get onto the school bbc to play this:
http://www.acornelectron.co.uk/i…
awesome game.
- Nairn0
Holy shit, skt - I'd completely forgotten about Sphinx Adventure!
That was the first and last text adventure game I ever played.
I was kind of stunned when I went to uni and found 18-24 year olds playing MUDs on the VAX systems we had access to. That's when I knew I wasn't [quite] the saddest bastard in the world..
Aaah, mammaries.
- ********0
you are in a forrest.
>go north.
you have just been killed by a dwarf.
- _salisae_0
the first time i looked to the internet for something was to read hitler's mein kampf. i was in a very depressed period of my life.
- Jaline0
My actual first time was after I went to the library. I found this book entitled, "The Kids' Guide to Making A Web Page" or something similar, and I fell in love! That was the first time I ever did anything adventurous and on my own.
Anyway, I went on to make sites and Pokémon, books and hacking.
- Nairn0
- Go North
- Feel Nostalgic
- Weep for lost youth
Games and game marketing have coma long way since...
