I first started programming with TurboBasic which had the oh-so-amusing characteristic that you could have variable names of any length but the compiler only used the first two letters (and case-insensitive at that). So "DonutCount" and "DoobieCounter" actually referred to the same variable.
Really good times trying to debug that kind of shit.
I used to write websites with Notepad. The upside is that you really had to learn HTML to do it; the downside is that it proves to the world that you're a fucking lunatic.
Something is either true or false, I would expect to have at least 50% of a chance to get it right on the first try. Nah, I fail to implement it three times because my brain went on vacation without telling me.