DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On Sunday, 30 June 2013 at 03:29:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/29/2013 5:08 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> True, distribution was mainly by physical mail. There was some 
> via BBS's and Usenet, but these were severely limited by 
> bandwidth.
>
> I'd receive bug reports by fax, paper listings, and mailed 
> floppies.


This was also the heyday of the BBC Micro in UK schools, and I 
remember well the shelves full of books of sample programs in BBC 
Basic. We had lots of fun typing them up, working out how they 
worked, and then twisting them to our more evil designs.