Before
the Prompt

On November 30, 2022, a chat window changed how software gets written. Before that, people wrote every line themselves — in octal on graph paper, then BASIC, HyperTalk, C, Perl, PHP, Rails, Angular and React. Sit at their desks. Use their tools. Build their apps.

• 01 Pick a year in the dock to travel between nine eras.
• 02 Click the computer to sit down. Fill in the blanks. Run it.
• 03 Stuck? The manual is on the desk. The phone is slow.
• 04 Click anything. Play the games of the day. Watch the TV.
• 05 There is no AI. It hasn't been invented yet.