My elementary school had commodore pet workstations in front of a vax vms mainframe. Commodore sent a ton of books on different languages available and I started picking up on things. I'd say after that it was pretty much the normal progression. Vic 20 then 64 then 128 then an Amiga 1000 with a whopping (upgraded) 1 meg of ram. I didn't touch a PC until like windows for workgroups 3.1.1
I messed around on some bbs's. Played with hacking and phreaking but never got real serious with it. To be honest it's not something I ever wanted to do for a living. In the early AOL days a buddy started a small web dev outfit doing perl cgi applications and basic web sites. Did that for a while, left for the military. After my first enlistment I got back into it looking for work, and the rest as they say is history. I've always wondered if I should say something about having been programming for over 20 years, but I figure at 33 people would think I was lying :) G Money wrote: > I spun this off into a new thread because it got me thinking........why did > everyone here get into programming? Was it by choice? Did it just happen > that way? Did you major in CS in college? Was it to make money? > > For me personally, I wanted a job that had 3 primary characteristics: > 1) Made good money > 2) Would be in demand for the foreseeable future and > 3) Would allow me to work with minimal contact with other people > > I'm not a misanthrope, but I do really enjoy just shrinking into my own > world sometimes and pounding out code without having to interact with a > bunch of people to get stuff done. > > So.......how did everyone else get into this business? > > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Adam Churvis < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Only one correction: David is the one who is off the charts. >> >> Respectfully, >> >> Adam Phillip Churvis >> President >> Productivity Enhancement >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 5:09 PM >>> To: CF-Community >>> Subject: churvii: a study in brainiacs >>> >>> so, david is highly intelligent, adam, well, you are off the charts... >>> >>> id like to know... how is your office setup? >>> >>> i see a bunch of churvii in one room, laughing at each other >>> coding, responding to lists, laughing at each others posts, etc... >>> >>> am i way off? >>> >>> -- >>> 'Never have anything in your life that you can't walk out on in thirty >>> seconds flat, if you spot the heat coming around the corner' >>> >>> robert deniro - heat (1995) >>> >>> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:259479 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
