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While having dinner with my teammates at the Shangri-La Plaza, we had a nostalgic conversation about our adventures in technology, particularly in programming. Just a bunch of geeks talking about geeky stuffs on a Friday night.

According to our Project Lead, he started his programming adventure by writing programs in BASIC on an Intel 486 computer a Sharp MZ80 Series (2 Mhz and 24KB of RAM). He also mentioned that he had once used a cassette tape to store his programs. He is that old (80+ years old in Programmer Years). Another teammate told me that his programming adventure started when he first discovered Visual Basic. For me, my programming adventure began when my elementary professor taught us Web Development (as in HTML) way way back in 1999. 1999 was the time when having an E-Mail account can get you laid . *I know, HTML is not programming! STOP BOTHERING ME*

After sometime reminiscing the days of Web 1.0, Visual Basic 4, Dial-Up Internet, mIRC, Hacked Unix Shell Accounts, Hacked AOL accounts and the Borland Turbo C Compilers, I suddenly brought up the topic of programming milestones — Those important events in your programming life that marks an important transformation. Those paradigm-shifting events that changed your geeky life forever. What’s interesting with this conversation is that everyone in the table can relate to each others milestones, its like everyone have the same programming milestones. Maybe all programmers have the same set of programming milestones? Like in life (as in real life), where we consider both College Graduation and Marriage as milestones.

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