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

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Post by willcate » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 10:12 PM UTC

millstone wrote: post #24

willcate wrote: post #18

I'm 53. This rather crude little website I wrote has been online for 14 years (since 1999). Some folks subsequently have monkeyed around with some of the content, but the basic design is mine, still intact. http://rivervalleyradio.com

It's held up pretty well! :)

LOL - God as my witness I did not use FrontPage. That would be the "subsequent" edits.

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

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Post by selimthegrim » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 10:13 PM UTC

smokey_the_bear wrote: post #45

I'm 31. It's not really code, but I made this terrible website for my dad 17 years ago. He still likes it. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~hentzel/Akpatok/

You don't have a brother named Robert by any chance?

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

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Post by michaelbehan » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 10:17 PM UTC

I'm 33. Though I have older code that I cannot find anymore, the oldest I have online is from 2001 - Rain - the powerful, Unix packet builder. It is still in *nix distros today.

https://github.com/jabberwock/rain/tree/master/1.3.0/source

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

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Post by dpw » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 10:18 PM UTC

I'm 38.

If you run Linux on an x86 desktop, you use code that I wrote in 1997: The MTRR support in http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/hw/xfree86/os-... (big chunks of that are unchanged in 16 years; I also collaborated on the kernel-side MTRR support, but that has been rewritten a couple of times by now).

It's probably possible to find online traces of code I wrote a couple of years before that. But I think that is the oldest code still in use.

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

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Post by a3voices » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 10:27 PM UTC

I'm 26. My oldest code online is here:

http://www.angelfire.com/ma3/medmath/

I wrote it in 2000, I think, to do a homework problem.

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

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Post by steerpike » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 10:33 PM UTC

39 and my oldest code online would be some LPC from 1993 that was part of a MUD that's still available. http://anguish.org/

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

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Post by kalyan02 » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 10:38 PM UTC

I am 24.

Oldest code online is from 2006 - I was 17 at that time.

PHP web counters - http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?tx...

And some open source web designs - http://www.opendesigns.org/profile/kalyan/

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

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Post by ah- » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 10:46 PM UTC

I'm 25 now and the oldest things I can still find are little games I built in DarkBasic.

The best that is still online is probably this game where you had to kick footballs into a goal with a rc car I made when I was 14: http://home.arcor.de/kojotex/Extreme%20RC.rar It's about 1000 lines of spaghetti code, at the time I was really proud to have produced such a huge program.

And it runs out of the box with wine on my laptop so here's a screenshot: http://andreas.heider.io/extreme_rc/extreme_rc_3.png

Also, I'm really surprised that arcor.de still hosts these things after eleven years.

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

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Post by smokey_the_bear » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 10:57 PM UTC

selimthegrim wrote: post #52

smokey_the_bear wrote: post #45

I'm 31. It's not really code, but I made this terrible website for my dad 17 years ago. He still likes it. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~hentzel/Akpatok/

You don't have a brother named Robert by any chance?

Sure do.

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

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Post by RNeff » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 11:04 PM UTC

I'm really old. During 1973-5, I worked at Hewlett Packard's Advanced Product Division in Cupertino. I programmed the HP-21 and HP-25 Pocket Scientific Calculators. The chip architecture was bit serial with 14 decimal digits (56 bits). The HP-21 had 1024 by 10 bits of ROM, the HP-25 had 2046 by 10 bits. The HP-25 was user programmable, storing keystrokes, some strokes merged. There were 49 locations. The original assembly microcode was on punched cards, and debugged with an hardware emulator attached to an HP-2100 mini computer. I still have the paper listings. Some years ago, I gave copies to Eric Smith, who scanned, OCR'ed, and very carefully proof read and debugged the result. The listing for the HP-25 is at http://www.jacques-laporte.org/Woodstock/images/hp25.txt

Here is a scan of a handwritten program for the MIT Whirlwind, from 1953 (from Don Knuth's collection): http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Knuth_Don_...