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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 23 Nov 2019
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    A friend had a Nintendo. I played it once, was hooked, and asked the friendly local librarian how one made video games. Learned Basic from the book How To Make Video Games. Didn’t own a computer for another 5 years or so so this was also my gateway drug for algebra.https://twitter.com/Initialized/status/1197631627167502338 …

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      1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 23 Nov 2019
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        “How do you write Basic without a computer?” Graph paper for the screen and contents of memory. I had a lot of time on my hands.

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      1. David Snitkof‏ @davesnitty 23 Nov 2019
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        I read that same book (I think) from my elementary school library, and that was my intro to BASIC. My dad was a programmer and had an old timex Sinclair I could play with, so I wrote programs to interview my family and tell them about themselves.

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      1. Paul Roales‏ @PaulRoales 23 Nov 2019
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        Same. Spent the summer between 4th and 5th grade rising my bike a few miles down to the library to code on an Apple IIe. Checked out every book that had anything about computers in it - all ~12 of them. Didn't have a computer at home for another 6 years.

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        Almost the same story here, except my fist language was Pascal.

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