I dunno, I was completing plenty of functional software projects by the time I was 14. The one I’m most proud of is my rendition of Tetris which ran in real time (i.e. independent of CPU clocks) in 80x40 text mode in DOS. It was comprised mostly of the ASCII bricks and extended characters and included a repeating interlocking background pattern of Tetrads made out of ASCII pipes that took me forever to figure out how to jigsaw together cleanly.
I think those days are pretty far gone, though. Not to be all get-off-my-lawn about it, but I think the kinds of things we were doing back then were a far cry from and significantly more authentic than what most of the current crop of script kiddies are up to.
significantly more authentic than what most of the current crop of script kiddies are up to.
I think it’s just that skript kiddiez theze daze can do somewhat interesting (at least to their peers) stuff, whereas you had to bust ass a whole lot harder just to get Hello World to animate back in the day.
Doesn’t make what they do any less impressive just because it’s easier to do flashier things - the interesting part is always the originality of it, if you’re “in the scene” is this kiddie doing something of their own, or is it just a copy-pasta? Same applies to music, visual arts, literature, etc.
I was always turned off by the “ripoff games” - but, then, back when the Palm Pilot was hot, the top earners in PalmGear H.Q. were all “ripoff games” - so, I guess I just wasn’t serious about being popular / making bank.
I dunno, I was completing plenty of functional software projects by the time I was 14. The one I’m most proud of is my rendition of Tetris which ran in real time (i.e. independent of CPU clocks) in 80x40 text mode in DOS. It was comprised mostly of the ASCII bricks and extended characters and included a repeating interlocking background pattern of Tetrads made out of ASCII pipes that took me forever to figure out how to jigsaw together cleanly.
I think those days are pretty far gone, though. Not to be all get-off-my-lawn about it, but I think the kinds of things we were doing back then were a far cry from and significantly more authentic than what most of the current crop of script kiddies are up to.
I think it’s just that skript kiddiez theze daze can do somewhat interesting (at least to their peers) stuff, whereas you had to bust ass a whole lot harder just to get Hello World to animate back in the day.
Doesn’t make what they do any less impressive just because it’s easier to do flashier things - the interesting part is always the originality of it, if you’re “in the scene” is this kiddie doing something of their own, or is it just a copy-pasta? Same applies to music, visual arts, literature, etc.
I was always turned off by the “ripoff games” - but, then, back when the Palm Pilot was hot, the top earners in PalmGear H.Q. were all “ripoff games” - so, I guess I just wasn’t serious about being popular / making bank.