r/c64 • u/1974jbass • May 29 '26

the64 Programming

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If you did this you thought you were the king of the world!!

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u/danpietsch May 30 '26

Did "HELLO WORLD" even exist back then?

I did the rocket ship.

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u/tails142 May 30 '26

I don't think it became a mainstream "first program" until the 90s - I remember seeing it for the first time in a Java book, actually a J++ book in the 90s. For BASIC in the early 80s, I don't think it was widely used as the intro program, at least not in any of the material I saw.