Hello World

Aged 9 or 10. Learned in this book cool stuff called "binary numbers".
They say it is the language of computers. Although it is unlikely, I hope I will have the chance to see a computer at least once in my life.

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June, 1974. The day before my baccalaureate, ask classmate to be my girlfriend.
Still with her today.

September, 1976. At school, I begin to learn Fortran. Running a program is a heavy process: punch cards, put the stack of cards on a shelf, and come back the next day to find a listing saying "syntax error line 46". Re-punch card 46, wait another 24 hrs crossing my fingers… Never used Fortran later, but it taught me I loved programming.

September, 1977. Still at school, first practical work directly on computer.
Enter program in binary with front panel switches. The program was short :)

December 1979. I buy my 1st computer : a KIM 1.
Based on 8-bit microprocessor 6502. 1k RAM. No typo. Hexadecimal keyboard for input, six seven-segments digits display : 4 for address, 2 for data.
I had very much fun with it, coding in hexadecimal. I still remember only one opcode : A9 for load register A (immediate addressing).

January, 1982. Now I have an Apple 2 - written Apple ][. With Basic, 48k RAM, graphics, floppy disk… More comfort than I ever dreamt of.
French personal 8-bit computers (TO-8, TO-9) will follow with more and more amazing features during the next years.

I bought my first 16bit PC about in 1990. I can't really say when. One thing I am sure is that I did not even know the word "internet" in those times.
Turbo-Pascal became my favorite language.

Beginning of 2000. First personal internet subscription. I discover HTML and JS. CSS? No, what is this?
I put my first web page on line in december: a game of solitaire, written in a bad JS. No, worse than that. But I was proud of it.

Try it at http://claude11.chez-alice.fr/solitaire.htm . In French. The form to send comments does not work, but the game itself does.

In 2001-2015, I make heavy use of PHP and mysql.

About 2016: I re-discover JS. I realize it is not just a toy.

I sign up for Codepen. I publish my first pen in november 2018. Nice place, I think I will come back often.

March, 2022. I become a Codepen "pro".

Now!

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