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2026-07-01 17:32 UTC

and so distribution frequently took the form of Byte magazine articles, etc. that said "here's the source code, type it in" and so the end user often had no choice but to learn some programming, in a language that wasn't too complicated to learn

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@beka_valentine@kolektiva.social 2026-07-01 17:34

or take the later 80s and the 90s and very early 2000s Hypercard introduced people to some basic interactive programming techniques, Hyperscript let them level up in an easy way that didn't require lots of fancy knowledge

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