Remembering Planet Source Code: Sharing Code Before GitHub Made It Easy (pietschsoft.com)

20 points by pabs3 3 days ago

3 comments:

by ZenoArrow 9 minutes ago

I remember Planet Source Code. I used the snippets when I was trying to build a Pong game in VB6 when I was in my teens, it was a good resource for inspiration.

by anilgulecha an hour ago

What a blast from the past. Couple decades ago I had submitted my first bit to this place.

https://github.com/Planet-Source-Code/anil-gulecha-bat-man-b...

VB6: What made a generation fall in love with programming.

by beepboopboop 21 minutes ago

Same - I stole my friend’s VB6 textbook in high school and couldn’t put it down. Transferred into CS classes the next day.

I used to go through PSC and download anything that looked interesting, and I would read the code to figure out how it worked. Learned so much from there! VB6 for apps, ASP for web.

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