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How old are you and what's your oldest code online?
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#2OP here.
I am a lurker on HN and often find programming/technical debates that rage around here amusing.
I am curious what the age distribution and general programming/geeky background of the HN crowd is. I am going to guess it probably skews younger.
Me:
33
oldest I could think of:
Used to hangout at Slashdot and CodeProject way way back.
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#337, when I was 13 I wrote an equation solver for the C64. It was a simple program, but had a nice GUI and a catchy name: Determinator.
I sent it to a German computer magazine and they paid me 200 bucks. It was the first money I earned with programing and it made me really proud.
Almost a quarter of a century I accidentally found that Determinator is still alive: http://plus4world.powweb.com/news/710
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#429 here. Also I think there are a lot of age statistics on hn regulars somewhere.
I really first started coding in 2009 ever. But I Know I took a few courses in 2002 but never really got into it. As well as a little dabble in mid late 90s. I was a late bloomer into programming. But now I'm in grad school for computer science and am doing quite well and absolutely love programming.
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#536.
Oldest code I could find is a project on Sourceforge that I created in 2001: http://sourceforge.net/projects/edubase/
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#634, and the oldest code of mine online is 11 years old:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/count/
"The count program is a very simple utility that recursively counts the size of directories, optionally producing a per-directory breakdown of usage."
Ah, nostalgia. There are closed Solaris SPARC specific bugs in the issue tracker :)
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#729. The oldest code I had public isn't actually online anymore as of last year.
I wrote a bunch of global scripts while a member of a social MUD called The Chatting Zone between 1997 and about 2002.
I just looked and apparently the server was taken down last year or so. This makes me a little bit sad.
Other than that there seems to a be a few websites I developed or contributed to around 10 years ago that haven't been changed.
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#8I'm 21, the oldest code I can find is from when I was 17, written in AutoIt... some shitty Windows automation language with BASIC-like syntax.
http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/104814-arrays-in-aut...
If I remember correctly, this is an auto-adding bot for MySpace, back when I ran a website for people to add each other and boost their friend count. Thinking back, I just built a digital orgy for MySpace whores. Cool.
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#9I'm 21 and my oldest code is seven years old. It's stuff I wrote for an MMORPG I used to play.
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#1034, and the oldest code of mine online is 11 years old: http://sourceforge.net/projects/count/ "The count program is a very simple utility that recursively counts the size of directories, optionally producing a per-directory breakdown of usage." Ah, nostalgia. There are closed Solaris SPARC specific bugs in the issue tracker :)
> Ah, nostalgia. There are closed Solaris SPARC specific bugs in the issue tracker :)
Nostalgia indeed, that's like a whole other era by now. There's a lot of technology like that that's just on the edge of my memory -- like the Token Ring networks I would see even into the mid/late-90s.