1979, Moon Cresta, Donkey Kong Jr, fruit machines, little black handheld space invaders with red dots, ZX Spectrum, Manic Miner, Jetpac, typing listings from magazines, The Hobbit, Snowball, Lurking Horror, failing to write my own games, Commodore 64, swapping tapes, Atari ST, swapping disks.
1989, University, Fortran, copying someone else and getting caught, an old PC, word processing, writing bad stories, solitaire.
1998, Pascal, Delphi, software engineering, databases, artificial intelligence, websites, email, first PC of my own, HTML, Quake, Flash, ColdFusion, Javascript, big teams, user interfaces, intimidating Java guys.
2003, Powerbook, PHP, MySQL, Apache, SQL, ColdFusion again, project management, web development, business processes, process re-engineering, marketing, content management systems, maintainability.
Now, ColdFusion, Oracle, PL/SQL, requirements, database redesign and data imports.
Where did the fun go?