A dead programming forum with posts dating back to the early 90s
computer-programming-forum.com
A dead programming forum with posts dating back to the early 90s
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Re: A dead programming forum with posts dating back to the early 90s
#2It might be more courteous to link to a mirror.
Re: A dead programming forum with posts dating back to the early 90s
#3Ahh, some thing never change [1].
Re: A dead programming forum with posts dating back to the early 90s
#4Each sub forum seems to have died suddenly at some date, different for each one. What's going on here? It's like the scene in a book where they're going through the remains of some dead civilization and saying "food still on the table, doors open... Whatever happened here, it happened suddenly."
Re: A dead programming forum with posts dating back to the early 90s
#5It might be more courteous to link to a mirror.
Try to register.
Re: A dead programming forum with posts dating back to the early 90s
#6Each sub forum seems to have died suddenly at some date, different for each one. What's going on here? It's like the scene in a book where they're going through the remains of some dead civilization and saying "food still on the table, doors open... Whatever happened here, it happened suddenly."
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Re: A dead programming forum with posts dating back to the early 90s
#7Ahh, some thing never change [1]. 1: https://i.imgur.com/Kc5xPLG.png
I was really hoping it was going to be posts saying C or Java were dead. Alas, it was regex.
Re: A dead programming forum with posts dating back to the early 90s
#8It seems like a news group dump.
Compare
http://computer-programming-forum.com/80-microsoft-visual-c-...
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/%22Don$27t$20want$2...
Wayback Machine earliest snapshot is from 2012. It probably never was a proper forum.
Re: A dead programming forum with posts dating back to the early 90s
#9It seems like a news group dump. Compare http://computer-programming-forum.com/80-microsoft-visual-c-... https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/%22Don$27t$20want$2... Wayback Machine earliest snapshot is from 2012. It probably never was a proper forum.
Also the domain was registered in 2012.
Probably a newsgroup dump in support of some spam or ad fraud scheme.
https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=computer-programming-...
Re: A dead programming forum with posts dating back to the early 90s
#10Each sub forum seems to have died suddenly at some date, different for each one. What's going on here? It's like the scene in a book where they're going through the remains of some dead civilization and saying "food still on the table, doors open... Whatever happened here, it happened suddenly."
The eruption of Mount Stackoverflow has perfectly preserved these poor, Perl-scripting souls.