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user-inactivated  ·  3235 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why I don't like smartphones

    It's folly to think that all those Windows desktops running AOL and IE were devices for creation. Smartphones simply pare away all the shit that nobody was using anyway.

I didn't start that way, but a lot of people I know got into programming as kids because they stumbled across one of the Basic interpreters Microsoft used to ship with their operating systems. Most of them were just used to consume content, sure, but when you started poking you could find an invitation to join in.