My Dad worked at Wake Forest University when I was in elementary school. One of my favorite "toys" was an amber-screen terminal in his study, which connected to the HP 3000 mainframe at WFU.
I spent untold hours and hours and hours playing Super Star Trek. I loved it SO MUCH.
The worst was when I was busy blasting Klingons, and someone in the house would pick up the phone in another room and disrupt my modem connection.
There are a lot of famous books on the subject of best practices: "Code Complete" and "Clean Code" are the first to come to mind, but I'm sure the folks here can recommend others.
I got one of those, and let my Chinese coworker listen to it and tell me what it was about. She got the same call, and when she called the number back (which was the Chinese Embassy in San Francisco), they got mad at her.
