Today, TED started to release archive material from way back - that is, reaching as far back as TED 1, 1984. Their first archive release shows excerpts of a talk by Nicholas Negroponte anno 1984. The talk is interesting for a variety of reasons and if you are technologically inclined, I suggest you invest the eighteen minutes of your life that it is going to take you to watch it. One particular story, anecdote if you will so refer to it, concerns the use of computers as pedagogical medium. In and out of itself a highly interesting topic, even more so with Negroponte spearheading the OLPC project in recent times. What struck me most though was the key role Logo, the Lisp dialect I spent years of my teenage life with, plays in this heart-warming story. Logo was my first programming language.  I started programming in Logo when I was twelve or thirteen. If it would not have been for my high school computer science class, I would have never touched it back then. It was just not cool enough for a teenage geek who wanted to do nothing more than to develop games, at least learn something about (sprite) graphics programming, not vector/turtle graphics - well yeah nothing but cool programming and dating that Nadia (or was it Nadja?) girl. Even though I was too cool to admit it back then, Logo was fun and you could program games in it. At some point we programmed a racing game complete with track, lap counter and collision detection :) Logo, as my main programming language, got already replaced in my high school life by Turbo Pascal, Assembler, Delphi, C and many more languages after that, but today's video made me realize that the little Lisp dialect holds its special place in my heart :)