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Re:Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991) [video] by todd3834 on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @10:39PM (#37937660)
Thank you for making hacking on AOL punters and proggies accessible to a middle school kid in the 90s. Your project is the reason I’ve made an entire career of writing code.
Re:Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991) [video] by 0xbadcafebee on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @11:55PM (#37938179)
Same :> I enjoyed this bit of nostalgia: https://github.com/readme/featured/aol-programming-culture Remember jaguar32.bas?
Re:Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991) [video] by todd3834 on Thursday October 19, 2023 @12:25AM (#37938377)
What a great read! Thanks for sharing. Trip down memory lane to a very happy time in my life.

jaguar32 and master32, :) swapping bas files was the only way I could actually do difficult stuff in the beginning

Re:Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991) [video] by DoodahMan on Thursday October 19, 2023 @01:57AM (#37939034)
likewise man. for me it started with Gorillas.bas and a curiosity of what all this text meant and how it pertained to throwing bananas across a skyline. that later turned into VB3 and AOL. the rest is history. what a fun time in nerdy history. thanks Stratoscope, thanks Steve Case!
Re:Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991) [video] by qup on Thursday October 19, 2023 @02:25AM (#37939208)
Holy shit, I never heard anyone talk about GORILLA.BAS. It's also the first code I ever read, in 8th grade algebra class w/ Mr. Seaman (serious).

I didn't have a computer so I wrote a lot of BASIC in composition books, instead. I never got to run any of that code.

Also DOS32.BAS represent! VB6 was all I wanted to do when I got my first PC. It took me like a month to download a warez copy overnight with a download resumer. My dad wouldn't let me use the phone line during the day.

I used vb6 to make about 15k in high school in a slightly unsavory way.

I'm learning rust now.

Re:Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991) [video] by qup on Friday October 20, 2023 @11:19AM (#37957349)
It was bothering me that you had written GORILLAS.BAS as I remembered it as GORILLA.BAS. I hadn't seen it in 27 years, at least, so I wasn't confident. Anyway today I had a look, and we're both right.

The game was called GORILLAS, but was in a source file GORILLA.BAS

Published in 1991, 32 years ago. Dang. It was pretty new source when I read it. At the time, I figured it was old.