I'm high school I attended a summer programming program where all of the computers we used were CLI Unix boxes. No GUI, no Windows XP. Just the command line and you. Learned quite a bit there, from basic C++ to very simple shell scripting.

I liked making my terminal environment black with lime green text a la The Matrix because it made me feel like a h4x0r.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Green on black is easy on the eyes. I used to rock an amber on black monitor on my ~~486/33~~ 486 DX 66 (I upgraded the CPU). It was full SCSI, coax networking, dial-up modem, and Red Hat (Halloween). The disc came with either a book or a magazine. It's been a minute.

I still have the machine in storage. Fully wrapped in cellophane.

EDIT: When I finally shut her down, her final uptime was a little over 2300 days. We were moving so down she went.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Stop gendering objects as female lol

[–] RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's gendered the same way in my native language

[–] gentooer@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Which language? In the languages I know, computer is masculine.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 3 points 9 months ago

Varies even within a language. El ordenador in Iberian Spanish, la computadora in Latin America.

[–] RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

in Italian, computer is masculine but GUI is feminine

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago

Haha same but no

[–] TheCoolerMia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 9 months ago

I think it's cute :3

[–] Vuraniute@thelemmy.club 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Some languages (French is the most well known for this) don't have a neutral gender.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 3 points 9 months ago

English has ;D