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@ Freedom Tech Architect
2025-02-16 07:53:44
My first game console was Atari/PONG in 1979. There was just this one game on it and we played it all night long.
In 1982 I started programming in BASIC on a C64. Night-long searching for a comma that should actually be a semicolon, just to get rid of the error message. And playing lots of games of course.
I'm playing Sid Meier's Civilization since 1991. Version 1 came on 2 floppy disks. 2 days ago, I've downloaded 14 gigabyte of Civilization 7. Still a good game.
My first WWW experience was with a NeXTSTEP computer at the university in 1994 and I'm not sure what the browser was (probably Mosaic, later Netscape). In the same year I've set up a dial up connection with Windows 3.11 at home, trying out different modem init strings. I've also used Bulletin board systems prior to that.
I made my first website in 1998 and started getting paid to make websites in 1999.
My first smartphone was the iPhone in 2007. Not iPhone 1, it was only "iPhone".
Believe me when I say that the IT landscape is messed up today. With only Bitcoin and Nostr as bright spots. Every other IT area is not worth the effort. Everything else is plagued with privacy violations, advertising, and scams.