When I started programming, it was in Fortran 77 on a mainframe. We were required to use punch cards for a day, just to make it
clear how good we had it in our ability to use a TTY. The TTY output everything you typed to the paper in front of you,
like a typewriter, except it was a typewriter that was connected to that mainframe that could execute code and output things
you didn't type: the output from your code.

This was the seed of an addiction I would stay with me to this very day. Being able to interact with the simplest of interfaces
and have complex computations performed was addictive. Then I found the simple games that were installed and the spell was
complete. Here was a tool and a toy in one, unlike anything that had come before.

And how here I find a gopher instance at my disposal once again...

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