I was talking to a friend who was thinking about the internet we want to have, decentralized, less silos, a bit like the nineties where it was possible to have static pages, host email, write your own CGI scripts, and it was all step by step easy and possible if that was what you wanted. And we got talking about the kind of things we need to today to get this back. Do you have reading suggestions? Blogs to read? Projects? People to follow?
Teenagers these days grow up with a phone instead of MSDOS or a C64 and how will they ever learn to tinker? How can we transition from play to programming, allowing people to create their own games, like in the old days you could play on a MUD or MUSH (I liked MUSHes better!) and from text adventure to community to programming it had everything. And I want the same thing for the web and messaging. People writing bots. People writing CGI scripts or whatever. I want it all! I want it now!
@kensanata I hope that https://tic.computer can become the next QBasic
(except without the whole "not a good programming language" part)
@technomancy Well, I told my friend about #Bussard where you play by programming in various languages and interact with the world using various interfaces and I was very enthusiastic and he was interested! I really should try and write a sub plot with missions for it, Skyrim style!
@kensanata I've thought about just turning it into an engine that you can write mods for; wouldn't be too difficult actually! but I'd need to do a bunch more documentation.
@technomancy Or we could just really jam with code and mission writing! We just need to find the time. I don’t really want to write mission-mods in my nerd cave all by myself. 😀
@kensanata I have a lot of thoughts on this; we should talk on Freenode
@kensanata that said, it doesn't offer much in the direction of networking and interacting with others, so that is an open challenge for sure.