Discussion on: What are you "old enough to remember" in software development?

[Ady Ngom]

• Floppy disk to compile my C++ code
• Tortoise SVN
• Notepad (no syntax highlighting)
• Netscape as a browser and IE6
• Barnes & Nobles was Stack overflow
• Circuit City was were the cool kids hung out and got their gears
• Tables were the only way to control layout in HTML with some horrible CSS
• Dreamweaver was the coolest shit since slice bread
• ActionScript was how nerds did Flash
• Flash
• Napster (I don't want to get in trouble) let's say it was the premise for never ending playlists
• The AOL DSL jingle and the famous "You've got mail"
• Books
• Java was the language of the web
• CSS sprites when they first gained mainstream
• YUI
• Blogger
• Google waves
• Yahoo pipes
• Hotmail - my first 'professional' email lol
• Zend Framework for serious PHP dev
• Phonegap as the first true HTML to mobile platform
• jQuery mobile

Man plenty more I'm sure - it crazy going down the memory lane :)

[David J Eddy]

YUI - OMG, someone else remembers that!

[Ady Ngom]

Yup way before Bootstrap and the likes

[Vincent Milum Jr]

Tortoise SVN is still a thing! And now we have Tortoise Git, which I use daily. I actually find it faster to do merge conflict resolution and file diffing with Tortoise compared to the command line. :)

[Petar Petrov]

TortoiseHG is my life saviour.

[Ady Ngom]

Yes indeed but back then it was the only thing. I think it had one off the best diff tools associated with it. I just can’t remember the name.

[Vincent Milum Jr]

Tortoise Merge is their diff utility. And yeah, I absolutely love it. Still use it on pretty much every single commit just to verify file changes.