Wendy Nather40 years ago, my dad went viral on Usenet with this little gem: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
GQB@wendynather @siracusa I have never seen such a poetic and detailed description of what it was like to program early computers, in machine language!
@GQB He really had a gift for writing. He originally wanted to write science fiction for a living, but someone offered him a job as a nuclear physicist, and he went with that instead.