10 print "Hello World"

Wow.

This post is all about the future that starts with my past.

I was seven. Maybe eight.

My dad had a Commodore 64, where I occasionally played games on, and a book about QBasic, a computer language, on the shelf.
I don’t know why he had that book, and I’ll never get to ask him anymore, but I did pick it up one day.

And typed the first line in the book and hit…