My co-workers husband turned me on to this REALLY COOL NEW THING, it was a way for multiple computers to connect together, it was called a "BBS" (Bulletain Board System), and you could play this really cool game called "Tradewars" and ...
and....
uh...
Well. I guess that's about it.
Although one time something happened to the tradewars program and it crashed, and all I could see was a black screen with a couple of letters, like this: "C:\Tradewars", so since I had learned all a person need to learn about programming in High School using an Apple IIe (state of the art technology then, it had TWO 5 1/2" floppy drives and 256 Kbytes of RAM) so anyways I typed "cd.." and then I saw this:
C:\
And I had this warm glow come over me. I had HACKED into the BBS and now I was L33T!! but then I didn't know what else to do, so I tried to remember a few more DOS commands and couldn't, so I switched off my dial-up modem, called the BBS back and went back to playing Tradewars. What was it? Gold, Uranium and Organics? Buy low, sell high? Whew! Those were exciting, heady times back then. We had CGA graphics, not like this fast-moving crap you kids got today, HELL! We had 16 colors and LIKED it. Kids today, I tell ya. They don't appreciate nothin. Walking around with $500 iPhones and wearing baggy pants and wanna complain about how tough it is "out there". Hell, son. Pull up yer pants and put on a belt like a real man, and maybe someone will hire you. etc.....