April 20, 2005

Well, I'll be darned

The twitch. The urge. The craving. You can’t resist. No hope.

I got home from my first term at university at Christmas in 1989, and I immediately set to work. Two days later and a marathon coding session, I had my own hand-crafted version of Tetris. Pure machine code, full colour, absolute addiction. I had become my own drug supplier, no longer dependent on the erratic availability of monochrome PCs in the college library.

So it’s nice to know that the mobile operators have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on virtual vending machines and hundreds of billions of dollars on networks to deliver that content, just to discover this.

Posted by Martin Geddes at 10:24 PM
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It is true, he really did code his own tetris in two days. After 8 weeks of having the family computer to myself, I was disowned for the duration of the Christmas holiday season.
Robin.

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