I'm so old I remember when the internet didn't have commercials.

@AncTreat5358 @geospacedman @kibcol1049 I think you mean teletypes (i.e /dev/tty), but yes. I am not that old. I have never used punch card or tape either.

@BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 we were poor. We had only one rock to bang together

@John_Loader @BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049
In my day we dreamt of having one rock.
If we were lucky dad would come home at the end of a week of triple shifts & hand us the dust left over from the tiny bit of gravel his boss would give him at the start of the week.

@AncTreat5358 @geospacedman @kibcol1049 I think you mean teletypes (i.e /dev/tty), but yes. I am not that old. I have never used punch card or tape either.

@kibcol1049 I remember dialup to connect to an ad free internet, worse than that I remember punch cards .

I'm so old I remember when the internet didn't have commercials.

@stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049

Not if it's in your sitting room, I suspect. All the windows and the crockery in the cupoards would rattle.

@NormanDunbar @kibcol1049 Canter & Siegel. I remember the Usenet backlash like it was yesterday.

@chuff @johnnyvibrant @IanDSmith @kibcol1049

I remember a bridge between ICQ, AIM and JABBER, lol

@tantramar @NormanDunbar @kibcol1049

I'll just leave this here ...
https://sattlers.org/mickey/culture/humor/items/Geekish/montyPythonDeadServers.html

@trouble @geospacedman @kibcol1049 Wasn't there a time when the internet was a line printer? Before my time, but I recall whispers from the founding folks.

@trouble @AncTreat5358 @geospacedman @kibcol1049

I have both programmed with punchcards, and maintained supercomputers with tape. I may be an Elder. ‍️🥳. Why I remember when we telnet into each others bbs, and we liked it!

@AncTreat5358 @trouble @geospacedman @kibcol1049 Tooting of the founding folks, I just discovered that Martin Richards recently wrote a paper about BCPL on the Raspberry Pi. He was Eben Upton's PhD supervisor.

@woo @AncTreat5358 @trouble @geospacedman @kibcol1049 I haven't seen Martin for many years. He gave me some advice once on porting BCPL to the then new-fangled 8080.

@TimWardCam @AncTreat5358 @trouble @geospacedman @kibcol1049 I didn't know him but my first job was at CCAT, so I knew several people who did and my best friend at Aston University wrote a comparative report on typeless BCPL vs strictly-typed Algol 68 as his final year project. I wish I'd had time to read it

@nlarson830 @kibcol1049 @harrymuzz
I signed up for a community college sort of computer programming class, 'cuz I was certain computers would be a huge part of my career (correct).

Looked at the shopping list for the syllabus of the COBOL class, & saw I needed to buy a box of punch cards.

Immediately dropped the class. I would've been cool with learning COBOL, but if they were still doing punchcards when I already had an XT with dual floppy drives, they were too backward.

@stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 When I were young we just had 2 rocks to bang together.

@woo @AncTreat5358 @trouble @geospacedman @kibcol1049 The type system in Algol 68C was, it seemed to me, so strict that when you eventually managed to get your code to compile it didn't have any bugs left in it!

@TimWardCam @AncTreat5358 @trouble @geospacedman @kibcol1049 I certainly never had time to discover any deeper bugs, by the time I got anything to compile. We only had 2 compiles per day, max.

@AncTreat5358 @trouble @geospacedman @kibcol1049 Tooting of the founding folks, I just discovered that Martin Richards recently wrote a paper about BCPL on the Raspberry Pi. He was Eben Upton's PhD supervisor.