From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Nov 08 2000 - 21:54:03 MST
Spike Jones wrote:
>
> Oh, yes, thats another thing from the old days, my young friends.
> We used to get software by having the code printed out in
> a magazine. Then we typed it into our computer. And ran it.
> Programs were shorter in those days.
Ha, I may be young, but even I can one-up that one. Not only did I have to
type the program into the computer by hand, I had to retype the program into
the computer each time I turned it on. It had no persistent storage. I think
I was around six, seven years old.
"And we walked twenty miles to the schoolhouse /
Barefoot, and uphill (both ways!) /
In winter, and even in summer /
Back in the good old days...
Programming VAXen by candlelight /
Back in the good old days...
Sending packets by carrier pigeon /
Back in the good old days..."
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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