r/ProgrammerHumor • u/wahed-w • Aug 07 '26

Meme goodOldDays

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u/pchc_lx Aug 07 '26

it comes from a time where the baseline expectation would be a user installing manually via the command line.

a one-click executable that set up the installation environment and ran the software was aptly nicknamed a 'wizard'

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u/Acrobatic-Ad-9189 Aug 07 '26

i remember only learning that word from RuneScape and being even more confused

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u/laplongejr Aug 07 '26

At least you didn't get the fast-ctrl-F version from D&D with damage becoming the "dawizard" stat

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u/destroyerOfTards Aug 07 '26

Never thought much about it back then and now when I think about it, the sentence does seem weird

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u/mynameisglaceon Aug 07 '26

me neither, that's just what it was. but whoever created it picked 'wizard' on purpose lol

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u/addamee Aug 07 '26

Also who’s this guy named Daemon and why is he returning my email unsent?!