At 15, a teenager building video games from his bedroom accidentally helped create one of the internet’s earliest coding communities

In the days prior to the internet, enthusiastic young hackers relied on floppy disks to trade their innovative programs. Bulletin board systems emerged as the first virtual communities, enabling ...
The Austin Chronicle

Game Boy

When Eric Kinkead got his start as a video game programmer, the cartridge was king and a joystick was still just a joystick. A was “run,” B was “shoot,” and no further instructions were necessary. A ...