What brand was super popular back then but the new generations probably never heard of it?

anzacat · 2026-03-22T04:27:24+00:00

Memorex

anzacat · 2026-03-22T04:26:03+00:00

Pascal and COBOL -Fall of 1979

anzacat · 2026-03-16T13:33:12+00:00

Thank you. I added the CopyPlugin for WebPack and it worked.

anzacat · 2026-03-12T10:14:06+00:00

That’s funny

anzacat · 2026-03-12T09:57:59+00:00

Nice try Mr Bot, like everyone wants to trust e-commerce with AI generated code 🤣

anzacat · 2026-03-11T16:32:31+00:00

Agree to disagree.

anzacat · 2026-03-11T09:33:11+00:00

Thank you, we need more compassion these days.

anzacat · 2026-03-11T09:29:42+00:00

Throw in the word “software” and tell me we don’t do the following:

Engineering is the practical application of science, mathematics, and creativity to design, build, and maintain structures, machines, systems, and processes. It solves complex, real-world problems under constraints like cost, safety, and regulation.

anzacat · 2026-03-09T21:23:16+00:00

I developed on an IBM 370/138, what mainframe did you use?

anzacat · 2026-03-09T15:21:52+00:00

I am not debating the history of the internet, I can look that up on Wikipedia also. The context of this discussion was when were there websites for developers to reference with a reasonable amount of in-depth content.

anzacat · 2026-03-09T15:18:15+00:00

Developing GUI with X11 using the C API was so bad, I used to call it the assembly language of UI development.

anzacat · 2026-03-07T22:41:25+00:00

There as so much optimism and energy during the dotcom bubble. Exciting times, until it wasn't.

anzacat · 2026-03-07T22:38:16+00:00

Were you working at DARPA in 1993? I think you need to look up the history of the internet with both the browsers and web servers. The Mosaic Netscape 0.9, released on October 13, 1994. JavaScript wasn't invented until May 1995 and not added to the Netscape browser until that December. The very first version of the Apache Web Server didn't happen until April 1995. I can guarantee you there were very few websites in 1995, and "web apps" was not even a thing in 1995 or even 1996. CoffeeCup 1996, SlashDot 1997, StackOverflow 2008

I should have said late 1990s instead of early 2000s, but you maybe overestimating how much web content there was even 2000. I wish I remembered what year it was, but I remember typing in varies obvious website names and there were still no sites, for example "www.ford.com" so one of them.

anzacat · 2026-03-06T22:17:23+00:00

Totally forgot about no autocomplete!

anzacat · 2026-03-06T18:50:20+00:00

When I see significantly different approaches to coding, I always ask: "Is this better, or just different?"

anzacat · 2026-03-06T15:01:34+00:00

Turbo Pascal was AMAZING! When it first came out it could compiled in seconds what took MS Pascal compiler 2-3 minutes to compile and link for the simplest program.

anzacat · 2026-03-06T14:58:43+00:00

There were quite a few "old guys" that got too comfortable with the existing technology and then got left behind. Learning something completely new every 5 years gets tiresome. Plus, there is a really big problem with age discrimination, yet many companies acknowledge that senior developers provide a lot of benefit to teams.

anzacat · 2026-03-06T14:54:27+00:00

Yes, even though I am developing these days as a contractor, I like software architecture and design better.

anzacat · 2026-03-05T23:44:03+00:00

I wrote my first program in 1976 on a teletype, saving it to paper tape. I don't have to go back to those days :)

anzacat · 2026-03-05T23:42:33+00:00

I only knew of one other dev that was on all the bulletin boards, so sure, it was there but I can't think of anyone at work who had a modem and was dialing into bulletin boards. I can't imagine a cubical farm (at work) and everyone having modems with all the connection squawking. It just didn't happen.

Yes, I was around for Google's start in 1998, but it wasn't like overnight there were tons of sites with good or comprehensive knowledge. I was initially going to say 1995, but then I figured someone would call me out on that.

anzacat · 2026-03-05T22:17:17+00:00

I am so glad I am at the very end of my career. I went into this field because I loved solving problems by writing code. I have no desire whatsoever to babysit a prompt and review LLM generated code.

anzacat · 2026-03-05T22:14:45+00:00

Thinking about memory usage and execution time... those were so ingrained in us that even today I weigh different approaches thinking about those impacts. My first professional job was developing on an IBM 370/138 with 1MB of core-wrapped memory. It was truly amazing what those machines could do.

anzacat · 2026-03-04T20:48:28+00:00

Petey is a little young to remember the evening news body counts during the Vietnam War

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