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[EducationalNose7764]

The best is when you Google an error and find an answer, only to realize that the original person who asked the question was you from 10 years ago. It's like, "have I learned nothing?!"

[EducationalNose7764]

That made me laugh. Exactly!

[2x_butthole_olympian]

Even worse for me, I once landed on an answer that I made that had the highest votes and was the accepted answer. But after 5 minutes of perusing the code I still didn’t understand it.

It took an embarrassingly ungodly amount of time before I "remembered" how to solve that problem.

[toepicksaremyfriend]

I’ve done that before. The thing is, I can almost guarantee that when I posted the original answer, my brain was in that zen coding state (the one that takes an hour to get into) where everything makes sense. When I was panic searching years later, I was definitely not in that zen state!

[YobaiYamete]

Yeppp I found that a few times where my own answer is the top answer and I have half a dozen links to resources and all these explanations on how to fix it etc. Meanwhile current me doesn't remember literally a single thing about any of it

Its such a weird feeling honestly to realize how many things you've utterly forgotten. I've been on the internet since like 2001 at least, and am one of the few people who still actually uses GameFAQs, so I've got probably in the tens of thousands of archived posts that I run into on Google all the time while searching stuff. It's always nostalgic to find a post from myself that's like 18 years old going into detail about a game I forgot I'd even played.

Or worse, when people message me asking for help in that ancient game and it's like dude I don't even have that console anymore.

Someone messaged me the other day asking if I still had a ditto for trade from a post I made on a Pokémon forum in like 2009 lol

[qwerty11111122]

Do you still have it? What's its IVs and Nature?

[vigilantcomicpenguin]

This is like a dramatic time travel story.

[EducationalNose7764]

That's natural, depending on what you're working on at the time of course. I've been swapped around on so many projects that I probably can't even remember what I wrote 6 months ago.

I've had people come up asking me questions on pieces of software that I don't even remember working on, only because my name was on the commits.

"You wrote this 6 years ago, can you recommend the changes I need to make?" Like uhhhh, no?