So, clearly, I just set up the blog and even though I am completely resigned to common little things such as “Hello World!” and I would normally, when setting u a blog, immediately remove the welcoming post it just crossed my mind what “Hello World!” in the world of programmers is used for.
If you are not familiar with programming languages, you may find this little note interesting.
You see. When you first learn to program in any programming language, the very first thing that you learn is how to echo, print or display a string. A string is a nothing more then a set of characters. So the very first string that you learn to output is “Hello World!”
Commodore VIC-20
I also distinctly remember how unimpressed I was when I learned to do this in BASIC programming language on Commodore VIC 20.
I don’t know what I expected to happen when I “programmed” my first string output, but if it is to base it off of the memory I have of my reaction to it, I believe my single digit age perception at that time (really, I was just a small kid back in the early eighties) was far more Sci Fi then the world of technology back in the early eighties could offer.
Ah well. What can you expect to happen with a Hello World on a Commodore VIC 20?!?
It was equipped with only 5 KB of RAM memory of which only 3583 Bytes were available to the user. And to think this was happening only 30 years ago or so!
Now I couldn’t pass on the opportunity to give you something amazing here. The VIC 20 was released in 1980 and it was no more or less, promoted by captain Kirk 
. Told you. Sci Fi!
Take a look. Have a laugh.
So that would be that for the opening paragraphs of my newly installed blog. I will undoubtedly find a moment in this decade to write up a few more of these. Hopefully less entertaining and more educational. I do have a seriousness reputation to maintain after all.
Anyways. HELLO WORLD! Talk to you later!
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Brilliant video. I was pretty modern in comparison to the Commodore. My first pc (386) had 2 Mb of RAM – and I was assured I could run anything on that, and a 20 Mb drive ,double-spaced to 40 mb, I’d never run out of disk space either!
You know what – it was always fast enough and ran every program I installed, I never ran out of disk space, and I very rarely crashed. Here I am 4 Gb ram, 750 Gb disk, two 500 Gb backup drives, quad processor. My typing isn’t any faster or any more accurate – I wonder if we’ve moved ahead or if we just have more toys that need replacing constantly?
You know that the research some people did (I heard this on the radio recently so I don’t remember who did the research) shows that new generations suck at typing without active thesauruses and grammar correcting programs.
We advanced for sure, just not in all directions.
I don’t think the technology has improved some things at all. It has made us lazy (lazier), we don’t want to learn any more because knowledge is handed to us on a plate in a few seconds. I think what this means is we can often get the knowledge but it narrows our thinking because we’ve developed a tunnel vision and no longer use our brains to think outside the square or be innovative.
Those who are innovative will win every time and the rest will follow.
Yes. You can debate that some technological advancements actually create a reverse effect on many people. In my view the advancements are supposed to replace mundane things and free up time to do more creative things,,, in reality this is unfortunately not true.
Many struggle to follow and re-learn the world every time something major comes out. Yet others are just useless to themselves…
Ah! Hello, World!
I wrote my first “Hello, World!” in Assembly Language on an IBM 1401.
Soon I found I could write it in COBOL. Followed by FORTRAN which was more difficult.
Then, in C.
Next, it was easy in Basic, and even easier in Visual Basic.
And, finally, I learned how to write it in perl, the Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister.
LOL!
Krinstina,
When is the next instalment of your marketing course?
It’s been posted yesterday.