>Nope, we intend to keep everything from you young whipper-snappers. Your
>first history lesson is to understand that computers used to sit behind
>big panes of glass, accessible only to the priesthood that maintained
>them. You communed with them only through a small hole where you passed
>your punched cards and got your results back (usually just error
>messages).
>So too it is with computer history. You can only have access to the
>knowledge we pass to you through the little hole in the window. Do not
>try to subvert our authority or we will find it fit to smite thee.
>And let's just get one thing straight, you were either born to compute or
>you ended up being some post-degree market-molded wannabee nerd who
>couldn't get a job in your chosen profession and just jumped on the
>bandwagon during the great Internet bubble economy of the late 1990s and
>"became" a programmer.
>So it is not true that "gurus were neophytes once". Gurus are born,
>not made.
>Ah, nothing like a good rabble rousing to start a Sunday morning.
>Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
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well....there werent always punchcards....my grandfather once let me see a
"supercomputer" that was programmed entirely by pushing switches....
anyways...im 16....i've been into computers since i was about a year
old....have been a "programmer" since i was 5 and discovered BASIC...now im
more into figuring out hardware design and all that fun stuff....
but the gurus should be nicer to us cause there are more of us than there are
of them....and if need be i'll go find the info i need on my own...its
amazing what you can do when you dont have a girlfriend or much life outside
of school....heh
Robert Cobbins
Received on Sun Apr 08 2001 - 14:05:09 BST