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The History of Dwarf Fortress with Zach and Tarn Adams - Part 1

The AIAS Game Maker's Notebook

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The Early Days of Computer Programming

"I remember my first memories of the computers... it comes when I was about five years old, and my dad was teaching me how to program," he says. "We would like the beginnings of the, you know, the proto-internet, where we would download games from these bulletin board systems that were like run out of universities and stuff" He recalls his father showing him what a for loop looked like; then letting him mess with it in different ways. 'Those were the only type of games that the computer could show'

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