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How old are you and what's your oldest code online?

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Re: How old are you and what's your oldest code online?

#12

34, 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 :)

Impressive after all these years still racking up downloads:)

Re: How old are you and what's your oldest code online?

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41.

The oldest code I'm aware of is the content management system that runs infoprint.com, written in 1998 when that product line was a division of IBM.

I know they have been modifying/updating it for the past 15 years, but I can tell from the URL structures that it is still the same architecture. I'm sure some lines of code remain from back in my day, but I am equally sure that it has been re-factored many times over. so it is much more their code than mine at this point.

Re: How old are you and what's your oldest code online?

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I am 28, I started writing code at 9. Started writing AOL "proggies" at about 11. Wrote mail servers, mass mailers, and some other fun tools for distributing "warez".

My handle was "chud" (shamefully). I wrote tools called Tragic, Mystified, and Tsunami -- all still found on random angelfire sites.

This one still has screenshots of some of my programs: http://amp.00server.com/server.html

Other links: http://www.freewebs.com/chewee/aolprograms.htm

Wonder if any of you were around the AOL scene back in the day.

Re: How old are you and what's your oldest code online?

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I'm 20. I wrote this when I was 15 or 16, put it on GH when I was 16: https://github.com/Macha/Machat/commits/master . Basically an IM system. It wasn't very good, it worked at some point but I don't recall if it was working as I left it.

Most stuff on that GH account is pretty terrible, I stopped using it a few years ago so it's mostly a reminder of "Remember when you were bad at this?". I have one under my actual name nowadays which has stuff in a more professional state, but is still pretty disorganised.

Previously there was a school website I created when I was 14, but that got replaced with something in the last year or so.

Re: How old are you and what's your oldest code online?

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post #16

I am 28, I started writing code at 9. Started writing AOL "proggies" at about 11. Wrote mail servers, mass mailers, and some other fun tools for distributing "warez". My handle was "chud" (shamefully). I wrote tools called Tragic, Mystified, and Tsunami -- all still found on random angelfire sites. This one still has screenshots of some of my programs: http://amp.00server.com/server.html Other links: http://www.freew…

was on AOL but not as a programmer:) Yahoo! chats maybe:)
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