In Part 1, we talked about the Atari 2600. The joystick. The cartridge. The arcade. The moment technology came home and changed everything. Part 2 is about what happened next. Because at some point, playing the game was not enough. The question changed. It stopped being “What does this do?” and became “What can I […]
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In the spring of 2022 we saw the return of the Stranger Things Netflix series and our heroes facing new challenges. Once again we get to enjoy an episode that has a 1980’s computer scene . Like my last Stranger Thing blog posts, I had the opportunity to dig a bit deeper into areas that
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The Stranger Things Series return on Netflix. We take a quick look back at Bob Newby our favorite coder.
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My daughter called out to me from our family room, “hey Dad, you have to see this scene from Stranger Things”! There is a character named Bob Newby, played by Sean Astin, telling another character that to hack into the system you need to know BASIC. BASIC is earlier programming language that many of us
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