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Discussion on: 4 Things Developers Take for Granted That Used to Be Really Hard

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Eric Wilson

Debugging! Cross browser compliance is a breeze compared to figuring out what was causing a Windows 95 desktop application to break on that 1 user's machine. What was that dll every software company on the planet wanted their own version of ctl3d.dll or something?

Also, stability 20 years ago everything randomly went down all the time and seemed to have very little redundancy. Desktops crashed often (blue screens), network connections dropped frequently, if someone knew your IP Address it was trivial to crash your workstation (ping of death, etc...).