Reading Planet Debian (see, Sam, we are
still having a conversation over
there? 😉), I read
Anarcat’s 20+ years of
Emacs. And.. Well,
should I brag contribute to the discussion? Of
course, why not?

Emacs is the first computer program I can name that I ever learnt to
use to do something minimally useful. 39 years ago.

From the Space Cadet keyboard that (obviously…)
influenced Emacs’ early design

The Emacs editor was born, according to
Wikipedia, in 1976, same year as
myself. I am clearly not among its first users. It was already a
well-established citizen when I first learnt it; I am fortunate to be
the son of a Physics researcher at
UNAM, My father used to take me to his
institute after he noticed how I was attracted to computers; we would
usually spend some hours there between 7 and 11PM on Friday
nights. His institute had a computer room where they had very sweet
gear: Some 10 Heathkit terminals quite similar to this one:

The terminals were connected (via individual switches) to both a
PDP-11 and a Foonly F2
computers. The room also had a beautiful