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Today I discovered an absolute gem from the past.
If you were around in 1984 you might have been super awesome and played core wars.
Core Wars is a programming game in which two or more programs run in a simulated computer with the goal of terminating every other program and surviving as long as possible. Known as Warriors, these programs are are written in an assembly language called Redcode.
Basically it's Counter-Strike/COD for programmers where you can fight in a team team, as a free-for-all, or one-vs-one.
What other cool things from the past might us youngun programmers have missed or not have an appreciation of?
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Good day for overcoming obstacles. Try a steeplechase.
(Score: 2) by mendax on Friday October 24 2014, @08:21PM
After all, the first real remote exploit I can think of, the Cornell Worm [wikipedia.org], exploited the lack of range checking in C arrays in common Unix servers of the time to overflow them and inject his own instructions. And this was 26 years ago! Is what the hackers do today all that different? Just a slightly different version of Core Wars.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.