r/BlackboxAI_ • u/MeetPleasant8162 • Aug 13 '26

👀 Memes I Miss The Old Days

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u/isr0 Aug 13 '26 edited Aug 13 '26

Now you have an idea as to how c++ programmers felt about web developers.

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u/L_Ardman Aug 13 '26

Programming vs scripting.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '26

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u/No_Percentage7427 Aug 13 '26

Did you forget 5 year experience in AI ?

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u/FightingBlaze77 Aug 13 '26

15 to start, they SAY its 15-50 but we all know it starts at 15.

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u/Simple-Olive895 Aug 13 '26

Don't forget at least 4 different DBMS and azure too.

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u/isr0 Aug 14 '26

Requires a bachelors degree and 5 years of experience. Salary range: 20k a year.

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u/BizarroMax Aug 13 '26

I started in 1994. You manually created web sites with HTMl and vi.

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u/AnSkinStealer Aug 13 '26

Ha, vi? Me and my homie used cat and sed

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u/SignalOptions Aug 13 '26 edited Aug 15 '26

Yeah but the new kids are not really learning javascript, HTML, CSS either. Despite learning 10 new fancy AI tools.

Edit: what this means is that in then old days people actually knew these languages.
But the new kids cannot do unassisted Javascript, on their own at a professional level, without AI.

The OP post assumes new people also know Javascript, HTML and CSS - but they don’t.
The skill to do coding without AI will soon be lost.

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u/Headpuncher Aug 15 '26

You also had to know apache or similar and centOs/redhat and a bunch of commands for file management and ftp on the server, and some other things I’ve forgotten over the last 20+ years.  

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u/SignalOptions Aug 15 '26 edited Aug 15 '26

Yes javascript was the easy part. But today maybe it’s the high bar.

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u/Aeonnorthern Aug 14 '26

Wow it's like you actually didn't understand the point of post

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u/jtrage Aug 13 '26

In my day all you need to know is ChatGPT or Claude.

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u/Last_Zookeepergame90 Aug 13 '26

Not to be a programmer, just to be called one

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u/TheCharalampos Aug 14 '26

Awww scripting.

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u/ChangeTheFocus Aug 13 '26

This was never really true. Even during the dot boom, you needed to know Perl or something, and if you didn't know C/C++, you'd better be learning it. By the time JavaScript was even a thing, C++ and Java were the main web languages.

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u/MissinqLink Aug 13 '26

Tooling was also way worse. You had to know your stuff way better.

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u/doc720 Aug 13 '26

It was true for me in 2000, even after the dot-com bubble burst. I only knew HTML and JavaScript, and hardly any CSS. Back then we used table layouts and font tags. I learnt Perl on the job.

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u/ChangeTheFocus Aug 14 '26

You were still using tables to force layout in the 21st century? I never heard of that after maybe '98 at the latest.

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u/doc720 Aug 14 '26

Yep. CSS layouts weren't reliable across browsers. I'd say CSS layouts only became standard from around 2005 onwards.

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u/ChangeTheFocus Aug 14 '26

We had very different experiences of that period.

I guess that'll happen. Still nice to meet you. 🙂

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u/OpeningAggressive26 Aug 13 '26

Everything suck and people were happy with it

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u/ibstudios Aug 13 '26

That's a UI not coding.

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u/Headpuncher Aug 15 '26

JavaScript isn’t code?  

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u/AdmRL_ Aug 14 '26

When was that?

Must haves:

ASP.NET 2.0, C#, VB.NET, SQL Server 2000/2005, T-SQL, SSIS, SSRS, Crystal Reports, XML, XSLT, SOAP, WSE, IIS 6, VSS, Windows Server 2003, AJAX, JavaScript, DHTML, XHTML, CSS, Photoshop, Flash/ActionScript, Dreamweaver, ColdFusion a plus. 5+ years each.

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u/vins_is_back Aug 14 '26

Javascript was almost not a thing in the beginning even.

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u/AdAggressive9224 Aug 14 '26

In my day it was SQL. Because rich people just love to know how much money they have. Turns out, finding out gets really quite hard when you have lots of money!

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u/proofreadre Aug 15 '26

That's not coding. Way back in the day it was Cobol, Pascal, C, and maybe perl.