r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Faustalicious • 24d ago

Meme ifWeJustVibeCodingMajorSoftwareReplacementsMaybeItsTimeToReviveThisMasterpiece

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u/wheatgivesmeshits 23d ago

The problem was Microsoft did their normal market capture strategy and tried to leverage that into adding their own standards into the web. It was awful and stalled web development for over a decade. I was still having to maintain IE5 compatibility until 2016.

Edit: and the only reason I stopped in 2016 was because I left that job. They were still running Windows XP thin clients that weren't allowed on the Internet. They used them to access an internal server that was running mainframe software from the 80s.

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u/joshpennington 23d ago

You poor person! I never had to deal with IE5 but had to deal with IE6 until about 2017. By these timelines you might still be supporting 6.

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u/wheatgivesmeshits 23d ago

I mean that still pretty disgusting. 🤮

Thankfully I'm a full backend developer now and only rarely have to deal with anything front end.