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		gcb0 on May 5, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Geometee love how VB was able to introduce maybe 1/3 of the people on this site to programming but everyone dismiss it as pure garbage.

nijk on May 5, 2013 [–]

Wow, kids. In my day it was QBasic or GWBasic.

gcb0 on May 6, 2013 | [–]

...changing the graphics from gorilla.bas i imagine :)

taliesinb on May 17, 2013 | | [–]

That is exactly how I started! Today's walled gardens don't seem to contain the same sandpits we had in the days of DOS and friends.

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