pics or it didnt happen

Bolting that thing to your head and getting beat up because of it? Yeah, that's something to get hyped about. What are you smoking?

I wonder what the cult of the Flying Spaghetti Monster will look like in fifty years.... Dun dun dun....

Much like a chicken after the axe has fallen, the body is still temporarily alive but the brain is dead. Just give it a minute to catch up to reality.

I once typed in a program for three days to see it generate a three dimensional donut on my TV. It took the program hours to calculate and display that donut.

Does talking to my girlfriend count as communicating in code?

Honestly, the quality is too good - You can see the wizard behind the curtain.

Quake though was just a man who would grunt every so often

HDMI is hardly rare, you actually have to go out of your way to get a computer without it these days.

10 INPUT "Who is poster?";A$ 20 IF A$="plover" PRINT $A;" is a jerk" else 30 30 PRINT A$;" is not a jerk"

There are literally millions of programmers that cut their teeth on little 16K machines with basic in ROM. It stopped nobody from going on to OO languages. Dykstra was wrong.

-- BMO

Computing in what my son calls "the olden days" was huge fun. Though not as productive as it is today. For certain values of "productive". Back in the old days you could write a graphing program with a couple of for loops and a plot command. Now there's all sorts of hoops you have to jump through to simply open up a window.