[gspr]

Me too! I will never forget adding "runtime loadable moduels" to my PHP IRC bot at age ca. 14. Oh my was that functionality a travesty: a user might say something like `!load poll` to activate the poll module. What would my code do? Oh it'd `include poll.php` (or whatever the syntax is, this was both my first and my last PHP project) in the main loop. On every iteration. Because hey, how else would the poll code be able to react to stuff?

I learned a lot of lessons and still have fond memories 20 years later :-)

Edit: Man, just thinking at this has Metallica playing as background music in my head even though I haven't listened to them in this decade. It's so strange how childhood memories can be so incredibly strong and cover so many sensory modalities. These days I can hardly remember what I did last week.

[sitkack]

I suggest you check out http://brainrules.net/ by John Medina, he covers the fidelity of our memories as we age and much more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NujSdn1bg5k