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

#43
Turning 32 in a month. Oldest code is a JS version of the game "lights" I wrote when I was 16 (March 30, 1998). I remember writing it the night before an essay for English class was due because it was way more fun to code. A copy is still available at:

http://matuli.free.fr/matthieu/jeux/lights/lights.htm

I thought I was such a 1337 rockstar when I wrote it. Older me thinks it needs some refactoring.

Older me also wants to tell younger me to stop being such an angsty teenager and writing whiny dribble about your high school crush in the code's comments.

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

#44
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…

vb6 for lyfe!

I started on AOL stuff as well, though I quickly moved on to websites, where I still am today.

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

#47
I'm 24, working in SF at a mobile gaming startup.

The oldest code I have online is a 'Direct Draw Game Engine', back on planetsourcecode. Some delicious Visual Basic :)

Dated February 2003, I would have been 13. Good lord!

http://www1.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?t...

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

#49
I'm turning 40 next week. I think my oldest code online is from '93-'95: graphic demos and a packet-driver-based program that turned a regular PC with two network cards into a bridge (saving a lot of money in the process...). All in x86 assembly language:

"Retarded Vectors" mini-demo ('93) ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/mirrors/scenesp.org/compilations/blastersound_bbs/IGUANA/RETVEC01.ZIP

"Yann's 3D" 3D mini-demo ('94) ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/mirrors/scenesp.org/compilations/blastersound_bbs/IGUANA/YANNS3D.ZIP

"PktBri packet bridge" ('95) http://www.jumpjet.info/Application-Software/DOS/Interfacing...

Funnily, someone recently captured videos from the graphical demos and uploaded them to youtube:

Yanns3D: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxs-GnsS1HQ Retvec: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBaATafw88g (for some reason this one is missing the shape morphing that was the cool part of the demo)

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