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The Borg Versus the Dinosaurs | Interactive Storytelling Tools for Writers | Chris Crawford

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I am a dinosaur. Most of the people reading this are Borg. You are the future. My kind is all but extinct. I, Dinosaur Back in the days when we dinosaurs ruled the earth, computers were simple. They couldn’t do much, but that didn’t bother us: if you needed something the computer couldn’t do, you just slapped together your own circuit board with some chips, soldered it all together, and poof! You had what you needed. Programming was simple, too. First you wrote your program down on paper, then you typed into the computer. If you were really cool, you even had special paper for your code: But the most important thing about this was that you had complete, total, absolute control over the computer. There was almost nothing in the computer that you didn’t directly control. Yes, there was an operating system on most of these computers, but even that was quite simple. Here’s how you read a file in Jurassic times: THEFILE = OPEN(2, 92, “FILENAME”); READ(THEFILE, $3A00); CLOSE(THEFILE); The “2

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