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Re:Programming Languages are the Least Usable, but Most Powe... by mkr-hn on Monday April 07, 2014 @02:25PM (#7548282)
There was a big underground movement using Visual Basic and variations on dos32.bas to do interesting things on top of AOL's client.
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Re:Programming Languages are the Least Usable, but Most Powe... by jasonwatkinspdx on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @02:32AM (#7551741)
That sounds fascinating. Is there a good write up for someone totally unfamiliar with that world and that doesn't want to get into the weeds, but is interested in what the community was like?
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Re:Programming Languages are the Least Usable, but Most Powe... by mkr-hn on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @07:36AM (#7552724)
Here you go: http://articles.marco.org/44

There are some references in this thread if you want to go deeper: http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/was-anybody-else-part-of-t...

This was one of the more popular programmers: http://patorjk.com/blog/programming/

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