Terminally young

Anyone who knows me knows that I spend most of my waking hours inside of a terminal window… When I was in elementary school, back in the early eighties, I taught myself Basic programming. The language, not to be confused with simple and definitely not the refined visual stuff the kiddies do today, the hard core, before the language had any real documentation, programming.

I read in a magazine that MIT had some students that were building and programming robots and they were using Assembly, Pascal and Basic to program them. I wanted to go to MIT and build robots too. Well, since I was only eight or nine at the time, I could not find anything on Pascal in the small town I grew up in and everything I asked for about assembly turned out to be about building something or other. So I chose Basic. 

Anyway, to make a long pointless story short’er’, this music video is right up my alley, in fact, it might be in my top three music videos of all time list. Enjoy.

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  1. Not only a great way to interpret a song but just seeing all that BASIC roll by reminds me of being 14 and trying to demystify programming. Ahh, sweet nostalgic memories of… uh, code.

    Fred | May 17, 2008 | Reply

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