2010: Visual Basic

For a moment, the room was silent. Then, the fan on his old development machine whirred one last time, as if exhaling. The debugger stopped. The gray window vanished.

A gray window popped up. Crude. Functional. In the center, a single button labeled "Click to Remember." visual basic 2010

He clicked it.

A message box appeared. The text wasn't code. It was a conversation. For a moment, the room was silent