[LINK] The lines of code that changed everything
Roger Clarke
Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au
Wed Oct 23 10:22:30 AEDT 2019
On 23/10/19 9:56 am, Andy Farkas wrote:
> [I've played Spacewar!, still use IRC, and have source code for
> Mosaic-2.5 that I used to compile on a 386 - am I getting old? :)]
> https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/consequential-computer-code-software-history.html
The contributors are already showing their youth
(i.e. lack of age, and hence lack of knowledge of early examples).
There are very large numbers of early code-examples that are way more
significant than the later ones here, in the sense that, once they
existed, they enabled - and even made inevitable - many more that
followed, both directly and as exemplars.
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