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Discussion on: What are you "old enough to remember" in software development?

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Trev • Edited
  • When my 386 was only really good for DOS and I used bash to write scripts/small interfaces to get around my system because Windows was hard to run
  • The Internet before GUIs. Lynx, IRC and a culture of safety and anonymity.
  • Modifying the school computers' autoexec.bat to prank/bork the boot up process.
  • When Google/Hotmail were brand new and Google wasn't evil.
  • Having my mind blown by Ubuntu 4.10 "Warty Warthog"
  • Using Dreamweaver 3.0 to create JavaScript enabled elements because JavaScript was optional and I didn't feel like learning it. To even use JS with a browser you had to get a 3rd party plugin to work.
  • When CSS was more work than it was worth.

Maybe not as cool as some of the real old guard, but I remember fondly.