When I was 12 years old writing Visual Basic I needed a way to store and retrieve data. Solution? A bunch of hidden textareas organized in columns and records -- complete with indices! Little did I know these things are called databases!https://twitter.com/replit/status/1126207506223525888 …
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I wasn’t aware VB was such a popular starter language. I did the same thing in the same language at the same age and didn’t expect to find a thread of us!
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Same here. replit could be this generation's VB... but only the good parts ;)
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On Replit they write files which we try our best to make persistent although didn't at first fit our compute modelhttps://twitter.com/amasad/status/974404113835335680?s=19 …
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Not sure if this is better or worse, but one of the first programs I wrote used the screen buffer instead of, you know, a data structurehttps://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1123100488222699522 …
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Think it’s still being done similarly in html/js world.. <input type=“hidden” ...>
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