dragon296joe

Ah, kindred spirit. I am 65. I first coded on a PDP 11/34 in assembler in 1980. Actually bought a 11/23, which was the size of a small refrigerator, which I had in my apartment. I too started coding on PC in 1987. Built a software company, ran that for 30 years and sold it last year. Now learning Python - that's what caught my attention in this post.

I was one of the first 3 programmers who worked at Ticketmaster back in 1981, when the entire company was comprised of 30 people in a litte office suite in Scottsdale, AZ. I left in 1983. Ticketmaster worked hard in the early years to compete against giants in the field, like Ticketron at the time. So it was not always a monopoly. Ticketmaster was created by grit and amazingly hard work by a lot of dedicated people. Just my two cents' worth. It didn't just happen overnight.