Nearly 40 years ago, I typed these lines from a manual:
10 CLS
20 FOR I = 1 TO 10
30 R = 10 * I
40 COLOR I
50 CIRCLE (320, 240), R
60 NEXT I
70 END
I didn’t understand a single symbol, but when I saw the output, I was instantly hooked — it felt like magic. This was during the twilight years of the Soviet Union. Fast forward to today, and I’m now in the U.S., working in a FAANG company.