Winsock is the first thing I learned that felt legit in some way. Made an IP chat app, 1998 or so. That rush led to at least a million dollars being made... it kept me from smoking pot with the losers. Programming in general was the escape, tho indeed a chat app was a claim to minor fame 10 years later! (Nothing against pot, but in high school that’s pretty much the case).
I remember the days of roll-your-own proggies and feeling like we'd hit the saturation point of what we could do within AOL... but then discovering how to replace Winsock32.dll and install Netscape Navigator and starting to learn what the internet really had to offer.
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Winsock is the first thing I learned that felt legit in some way. Made an IP chat app, 1998 or so. That rush led to at least a million dollars being made... it kept me from smoking pot with the losers. Programming in general was the escape, tho indeed a chat app was a claim to minor fame 10 years later! (Nothing against pot, but in high school that’s pretty much the case).
I remember the days of roll-your-own proggies and feeling like we'd hit the saturation point of what we could do within AOL... but then discovering how to replace Winsock32.dll and install Netscape Navigator and starting to learn what the internet really had to offer.