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I found one of my first programs (Java, 2011) on the Wayback Machine and it runs

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Re: I found one of my first programs (Java, 2011) on the Wayback Machine and it runs

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Post by jbverschoor »

wh33zle wrote: post #11
n9 wrote: post #4

The first major piece of code that I ever wrote was a publishing workflow management system for a major newspaper. It routed page images to presses and generated pdfs of each page in each edition of the newspaper and made pdfs of each day's newspaper editions and published them to a static website where they were archived. I was only allowed to use perl 4 to write this software and I wasn't allowed to use a database,…

If you don't mind me asking, how much did they pay you to build it?

My salary was about 30k. Best deal ever lol

Re: I found one of my first programs (Java, 2011) on the Wayback Machine and it runs

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Post by genewitch »

chefandy wrote: post #19
n9 wrote: post #4

The first major piece of code that I ever wrote was a publishing workflow management system for a major newspaper. It routed page images to presses and generated pdfs of each page in each edition of the newspaper and made pdfs of each day's newspaper editions and published them to a static website where they were archived. I was only allowed to use perl 4 to write this software and I wasn't allowed to use a database,…

> asked me a few questions about what OO Perl is because he wanted to make a few changes Well that's pretty impressive. Most of my garbage pearl code from 20 years ago would probably look like line noise to most modern developers if it wasn't for the shebang.

i never wrote perl in any serious fashion, but i've always tried to use as much information in the source so i can figure out how i did it. I enjoy reading the submissions to code golf challenges, though. A few of the more esoteric language users have let slip they write a compiler to go from readable code to the target unreadable code.

Whenever i see terse C or load bearing perl it does look like line noise.

Re: I found one of my first programs (Java, 2011) on the Wayback Machine and it runs

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Post by s2l »

n9 wrote: post #4

The first major piece of code that I ever wrote was a publishing workflow management system for a major newspaper. It routed page images to presses and generated pdfs of each page in each edition of the newspaper and made pdfs of each day's newspaper editions and published them to a static website where they were archived. I was only allowed to use perl 4 to write this software and I wasn't allowed to use a database,…

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Re: I found one of my first programs (Java, 2011) on the Wayback Machine and it runs

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Post by Scoundreller »

aabhay wrote: post #6

The wayback machine is pure nostalgia. Every time I go there I’m truly amazed at what it’s like to have a society wide memory that automatically captures these different moments of our lives. Old pictures I never thought I’d ever see again. Landing pages for old companies I’ve built and only a handful of my closest friends remember. Blog posts from long deleted places, times, and mental caverns. Just incredible.

Reminds me of some reddit post with a link to some page with some local history, but all of the image links were broken. Within a few minutes I posted the link to Wayback and they were delighted because they happened to be archived there.

Re: I found one of my first programs (Java, 2011) on the Wayback Machine and it runs

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Post by brlcad »

Boggles my mind when coders don't save everything they've ever written. It's easy to be a digital pack-rat without much consequence.

That said, my first Java 1.02 programs from the 90's still compile and the old jars run surprisingly well too. Color me impressed!

Re: I found one of my first programs (Java, 2011) on the Wayback Machine and it runs

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Post by ks2048 »

brlcad wrote: post #26

Boggles my mind when coders don't save everything they've ever written. It's easy to be a digital pack-rat without much consequence. That said, my first Java 1.02 programs from the 90's still compile and the old jars run surprisingly well too. Color me impressed!

It was quite different before the internet. I'm still holding out hope of finding some of my old BASIC programs from the 80s on a 5¼-inch floppy disk in my parents' basement. But they are probably gone.

Re: I found one of my first programs (Java, 2011) on the Wayback Machine and it runs

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Post by rafaelgoncalves »

jraph wrote: post #12

If you are so inclined, a decompiler might be able to "recreate" a big part of the source code. IntelliJ IDEA's one (Fernflower) works well, its fork Vineflower seems like an interesting option too. Both are released under Apache 2. Fernflower works so well I don't always immediately notice I'm debugging decompiled code.

Nice, didn't know about fernflower, thanks for the recommendation! I use JavaDecompile (JD-GUI)¹ too much and is already in my workflow, but from insights like this i see some nicer/better tools.

1 - JD-GUI - https://java-decompiler.github.io/

Re: I found one of my first programs (Java, 2011) on the Wayback Machine and it runs

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Post by Elyra »

otteromkram wrote: post #17
aabhay wrote: post #6

The wayback machine is pure nostalgia. Every time I go there I’m truly amazed at what it’s like to have a society wide memory that automatically captures these different moments of our lives. Old pictures I never thought I’d ever see again. Landing pages for old companies I’ve built and only a handful of my closest friends remember. Blog posts from long deleted places, times, and mental caverns. Just incredible.

I try donating every few months. Maybe $5-$10 each time. Like yourself, I think it's an incredible resource and don't mind pitching in( when I can) to help keep it running.

Same here, I have them set as my charity through Amazon smile and humble bundle
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