Remembering Planet Source Code: Sharing Code Before GitHub Made It Easy
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#2What a blast from the past. Couple decades ago I had submitted my first bit to this place.
https://github.com/Planet-Source-Code/anil-gulecha-bat-man-b...
VB6: What made a generation fall in love with programming.
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#3What a blast from the past. Couple decades ago I had submitted my first bit to this place. https://github.com/Planet-Source-Code/anil-gulecha-bat-man-b... VB6: What made a generation fall in love with programming.
Same - I stole my friend’s VB6 textbook in high school and couldn’t put it down. Transferred into CS classes the next day.
I used to go through PSC and download anything that looked interesting, and I would read the code to figure out how it worked. Learned so much from there! VB6 for apps, ASP for web.
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#4I remember Planet Source Code. I used the snippets when I was trying to build a Pong game in VB6 when I was in my teens, it was a good resource for inspiration.
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#6What a blast from the past. Couple decades ago I had submitted my first bit to this place. https://github.com/Planet-Source-Code/anil-gulecha-bat-man-b... VB6: What made a generation fall in love with programming.
You can still download VS6 from Microsoft and clone a repo from there, and chances it’ll compile and run are higher than JS project that’s two weeks old
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#7During my omgwowcpanel excitement days, i would download tons upon tons of scripts from hotscripts.com
No idea what I had but was a mix from php clan roasters to coldfusion video streaming tools.
The essence of download, run configuration script and use is so rigid now.
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#8What a blast from the past. Couple decades ago I had submitted my first bit to this place. https://github.com/Planet-Source-Code/anil-gulecha-bat-man-b... VB6: What made a generation fall in love with programming.
You can still download VS6 from Microsoft and clone a repo from there, and chances it’ll compile and run are higher than JS project that’s two weeks old
RADBasic is also compatible: https://www.radbasic.dev/
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can still download VS6 from Microsoft and clone a repo from there, and chances it’ll compile and run are higher than JS project that’s two weeks old
RADBasic is also compatible: https://www.radbasic.dev/
Wonder how this compares to TwinBasic. I know back in my teens we were using what became Xojo as an alternative, don't think its drop-in, at least not anymore with VB6 but I still eyeball it every few years.
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#10What a blast from the past. Couple decades ago I had submitted my first bit to this place. https://github.com/Planet-Source-Code/anil-gulecha-bat-man-b... VB6: What made a generation fall in love with programming.
Same - I stole my friend’s VB6 textbook in high school and couldn’t put it down. Transferred into CS classes the next day. I used to go through PSC and download anything that looked interesting, and I would read the code to figure out how it worked. Learned so much from there! VB6 for apps, ASP for web.
Did he at least get the book back? The one time I ever let anyone borrow my books, was a HTML 4 book, and I got it back in such a poor state I never did again.