Re:Ask HN: Whatever happened to exploring the internet?
by mch82 on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @12:03AM
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In 1997 a classmate would write HTML on paper with a pencil during class. It slipped my memory until recently & now I like to imagine it worked out well for him.
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Re:Ask HN: Whatever happened to exploring the internet?
by cgriswald on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @12:50AM
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I learned perl on paper and pen with a copy of Larry Wall’s Perl in a hotel room in Long Beach. (An ex’s business trip, nothing to do during the day and too young to rent a car.) Having to check my own work with no interpreter (until I got home) really made me think both when I wrote it and when I reviewed it. Helped grok the concepts that were new and the syntax.