Software quickly gets outdated and re-written all the time. Sometimes the whole product is shutdown. I was just curious about products/modules that you had coded that has stood the test of time!
Ask HN: Oldest code you have written that is still in use?
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#2The smaller the userbase, the more likely the code is to remain in service forever. The oldest code I've written is http://www3.amherst.edu/~scrutiny/about.php, which has gotten a facelift since I wrote it in 2004, but otherwise seems to have the same functionality and code backing it.
Pretty much everything professional is gone...hell, the only employer of mine that is still in business is Google. When I left them in 2014, about 3% of the code I'd written for them was still in production, and following the rule above, it's silly stuff that nobody ever sees, like https://www.google.com/search?q=deubogpiegpj&tbs=qdr:h (that's the no-results page when a tool is selected).
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#3I am not sure if they are still running, but some time ago I wrote a large number of Oracle PL/SQL procedures activated by cron jobs. The source database schema did not change very much ( JIRA ) and those procedures ran for at least four years without needing any attention or maintenance.
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#4Client-side or server-side? My Angelfire website circa 1999 is still up and running :)
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#5Pretty sure code I wrote in 2001 right out of college is still used in production for mission critical systems for a national association.
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#6My socket library from 1997 is still handling thousands of sessions a day. I just checked the CVS log, and it has only had 2 minor changes since 2005.
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#7Code to analyze results from the Slowpoke nuclear reactor at the university of Toronto: 1994.
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#9Extranet for Very Large Company, circa 1999. X0,000s of users, X0,000,000s of docs.
Platform: Lotus Notes / Domino.
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#10I've got some code in part of a corporate-scale backup system that I wrote in 2008 (right out of college). The product is being put into kind of a permanent maintenance mode, so I imagine that the same code will be there for as long as anyone's using the product.
I had a hand-coded Geocities page (actually, 2 of them) in about 1995 and 1996. Should still be accessible in the Archive, or something.