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

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[Marcos Dias]

When HTML5 was a thing.

[Babak K. Shandiz]

This nostalogic screen and memory address 1024 (0x400) at which you could peek/poke the top-left character on the screen.

[Dieter Schön]

Run a job on the mainframe. Get the printout on the net morning.

[Alexander Chichigin]

QuickBasic, Visual Basic 4.0, Delphi 1.0, Java 1.0...

No 64-bit PCs.

No Internet access, no Stack Overflow.

[Marek Pepke]

You could have 3D animations in Internet Explorer 4 in 1997, programmed in JScript.

The feature was called DirectAnimation news.microsoft.com/1997/12/10/micr...
It was later blocked and removed, due to security vulnerabilities.

[Mike Bybee]

• When JavaScript was called a "toy language" (ironically, many who called it that are now JS devs).
• When PHP was procedural
• When VBScript was taken seriously as a backend language
  • To be fair, HTAs were really cool for quickly whipping up small desktop GUI apps with HTML and VBScript, pre-Electron
• Shimming everything
• When shared hosting ruled the world
• When VPSes were outrageously expensive
• When people thought their VPSes had to be "managed"
• When Linux had to be installed from several CDs
• When 256MB of RAM was a blazing fast desktop
• <marquee> tags
• Shockwave
• .NET not existing

[Juanjo Aguililla]

#include <conio.h>

[Abigail Colina]

Not in software development, but I remember getting into Neopets pages to change the HTML and CSS from it.
That's oddly what got me into web dev.

[Eric McCormick]

Writing a choose-your-own style adventure in TI-BASIC on my TI-82 in middle school. A Blade Runner tie-in story line with loads of menu selections and manual GOTO statements... written "by hand" on the TI-82.

[teslan.io]

I remember learning FORTRAN by filling in bubble cards (which our teacher would take to the board of education building, to be run overnight and picked up in the morning) then progressing to punch cards, followed by those big green IBM 3270 terminals - which worked similar to current internet but without the lipstick. Do I get "The Oldest" prize ;?)

[Syed Faraaz Ahmad]

Microsoft front-page

[Kenichiro Nakamura]

I am old enough to remember .NET Framework 1.1

[Saleem]

li $v0, 4

[Zohar Peled]

I wrote some Basic as a kid (I think I was about 8-10 years old back than), but my first professional job was to write mobile websites using WAP and WML - protocols and languages that are long extinct...

[Médéric Burlet]

• Creating entire websites in Flash
• Creating MSN Nudge Spammers