I still have my punch cards, and if you were really into those things, punch tapes. Gopher and usenet and all them things I remember too. Before the Net became common place, I was BBS'ing on private networks and CompuServe, 300 baud modems, etc. Peek and poke dealt with memory. Used to use CP/M machines, using the Z80 chip, before Intel came out with the 8088. The first game I played online was a MUD, games with commands like Look Door; Go North; Take Key; Wield Sword; Quaf Potion. Started off with RLL hard drives, now everyone is talking about SATA. I miss those days.

Anyone remember the old Star Trek text games?

Can still learn COBOL.. can even get COBOL.NET. It ain't dead.