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What is the one most astonishingly dumb things that, as a child, you believed was absolute truth? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I dont remember the age, but it was before Kindergarten, thought men came into the house at night to load the next days shows into the TV.

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[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I started learning BASIC when I was 7 and used to think that the POKE command was a magical incantation that could do anything. Like you could make an entire game with a single POKE. You just had to find the right one.

[–] planish@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Extreme Code Golf

[–] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

You were only part wrong; POKE is magic that can do almost anything. You just have to call it a bunch.

At least, on 6502 systems, in the days of static memory layout operating systems, it was.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

What about PEEK and DATA? You definitely need some PEEK and DATA statements too.

[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I thought for a second you ment a different kind of basic