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What it Was Like to Use the Internet in 1991
This page describes what it was like to use the Internet in 1991. This was before almost anyone in ordinary life had even heard of the Internet. Back then, it was almost a completely blank...
Bugster Rush – My 10 Year-Old Son's First Coding Project
My 10 year-old son made this game in the language Scratch in a few hours (with some help). Neither of us had coded in Scratch before, and I hadn't really seen it before at all. At...
Ideas to Help Poor Eyesight from Reading and Screen Use
Do you get sore eyes from doing a lot of reading and looking at screens? I had perfect eyesight for most of my life, though in the last few years this had declined. Here are...
Meet the Team
Our dedicated team of undercover reporters. They could be anywhere. Any time. Meet the Codewiz.au team. This page was originally made for a different website, which never really ended up happening. That site was going to...
My First Ever Computer Program — You Can Try It Too
This page gives an example of the first computer program that I saw in its entirety for myself. And typed in to a computer. And ran. And fooled around with. I was (I think) 8...
Eel — Play This DOS Game in C in Your Browser
On this page you can see the source code and other details of the game Eel, which I wrote in C on a Windows PC while I was studying Physics in 1997. I'll add more...
Conqueror — Pascal Source Code and Details
Play and see the source code and other details of the game Conqueror, which I wrote in Pascal on the Commodore 64 in early-mid high school. I'll add more info as I get around to...
Commodore 64 JavaScript Emulator
I found this Commodore 64 JavaScript Emulator, written by Thomas Hochgoetz, at c64emulator.111mb.de. It's installed here to demonstrate the games and other software I wrote in early-mid high school. ...
Fast Draw – A Commodore 64 Poker Machine
Play this poker machine emulation online in your web browser! This page was an experiment to see if I can get some of the vintage computer games that I wrote years ago, before there...
Learn How to Hack Systems By Playing the Bandit Wargame
You can play this game to learn the basics of the Unix / Linux terminal "shell" command prompt, and many other essential skills used in computer networking, including hacking. I'll write much more about this soon...
Simplified Game of NIM in Python with Code and Details
Write a detailed algorithm and a program that plays the ancient Chinese game of NIM. Actually, this is a simplified version of the original game. In this game, the person who runs your program will...
NSA Operation ORCHESTRA Revealed in a Rare Behind-the-Secnes Look
I found this to be extremely interesting and funny — and also informative. The presenter is pretending to be an NSA agent, giving a highly secret security briefing, which will "of course, never leave this...