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Remembering Planet Source Code: Sharing Code Before GitHub Made It Easy

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Re: Remembering Planet Source Code: Sharing Code Before GitHub Made It Easy

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Post by alex_hitchins »

This was my first website visit of the day, every day back then.

I still remember seeing a post with 'XP style' buttons for VB6 that I used on a Windows Server 2000 application and thought it was the bees knees.

Another I recal was a PSC code scanning tool, written itself in VB6.

Happy happy times.

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Post by viralsink »

Oh man I loved psc as a teen. They had a monthly contest for who gets the most upvotes for their submission. You could win a CD containing a collection of psc submissions. Just wanting to win made me grind day and night. I would check new submissions every few hours and check up on what others where up to. Fun times. Also VB6 was a blast, and the psc community felt like one big group of equally minded people. My favourite thing to do was to hack VB6 internals and make the language do things it wasn't made to do.

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Post by jamesfinlayson »

sn0n wrote: post #12

No idea what planetsourcecode is or was, but I remember sourceforge?

Yeah I'd never heard of it either - 1997 to 2013 then 2015 to 2020 from what I can see. I was definitely around for half of its life but never saw it.

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Post by beepboopboop »

lloydatkinson wrote: post #10
beepboopboop wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same - I stole my friend’s VB6 textbook in high school and couldn’t put it down. Transferred into CS classes the next day. I used to go through PSC and download anything that looked interesting, and I would read the code to figure out how it worked. Learned so much from there! VB6 for apps, ASP for web.

Did he at least get the book back? The one time I ever let anyone borrow my books, was a HTML 4 book, and I got it back in such a poor state I never did again.

He did! I think I borrowed it over a weekend and that was all the convincing I needed
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