Hey, fediverse (and bsd.network!)
I want to hear about your formative tech years!
What did you love in years past? What made you think "if we have something like *this* today, the future is certain to be amazing?"
@pamela I grew up poor, so my first programming experience (if it can be called that) was an N64 and one of those “cheat cartridges”.
Turns out you can learn a surprising amount of things with only a breakpoint debugger and hex editor disguised as a toy, no instructions or prior knowledge, and too much free time.
@flussence it sounds awesome, not silly :D that moment of realizing tech can be truly interactive is an eye-opener for sure!
being able to pick apart things I enjoy and put them back together differently still holds lots of appeal for me :)
@flussence @kurtm @pamela this is almost exactly my first experience
@pamela (it sounds silly, but the fact I could *change* things that were previously to me set in stone was mind-expanding at the time)