Metal Gear (video game)

There are no user-serviceable parts anymore. I feel like that kind of tinkering, taking the back of the tape deck off and seeing how the gears fit together, that sort of exploration is what led to this for me. Aside from things like LEGO Mindstorms, I donБЂ™t think thereБЂ™s a lot of opportunity for people to follow that path these days. But maybe IБЂ™m wrongБЂ”like I said, I donБЂ™t know any 13-year-olds. I donБЂ™t know what the toys are like. ThereБЂ™s a lot of video games; thereБЂ™s a lot of things with remote controls. I havenБЂ™t seen any really good construction kinds of toys. Which seems sad. Seibel: On the flip side, programming itself is much more accessible. You donБЂ™t have to master all the intricacies of assembly programming right off the bat just to make a computer do something neat. Zawinski: Yeah. I imagine that todayБЂ™s kids who are getting into programming start off building some web app or writing a Facebook plugin or something. Brad Fitzpatrick, who wrote LiveJournal, is a friend of mine. When he wrote LiveJournal he was goofing around and wrote this Perl script where he and his friends could say, БЂњIБЂ™m going to get lunch.БЂ«The way he started out was he wrote a little Perl script and put it on a web server ...»