How I loved those days. That was before we moved to Thornton, meaning it was earlier than 1986. I couldn't have been more than five years old at the time. I made simple programs that played music or printed a few silly messages in loops, or drew lines and circles. The meteor was nothing more than a circle, and the animation was pathetic, but I thought each version the most advanced work I had yet produced.
Skill increases with persistence.
Many of the better programs from this period still survive. I never was a great artist. Ascii empowered me. I used ascii in ways graphics people would never have imagined. I play tennis when it suits me, and I like volleyball, though not religiously.