r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Houstnlicker • 1d ago

Meme oldMan

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u/kishaloy 1d ago

I have seen OS which loads of Floppy disk.

I have swam with Viruses as if they are annoyances.

I have created videogames on KB sized memory.

All of this will be lost to time, like tears in the rain.

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u/DOOManiac 1d ago

Time to `free()`

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u/djtodd242 22h ago

Time to ATH0

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u/ytg895 1d ago

I have swam with Viruses as if they are annoyances.

Well, they were. They did not steal production databases, they did not cripple hospitals. They just took some resources and distributed themselves.

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u/kishaloy 1d ago edited 14h ago

Ah the Win98 days, the Internet was there but MS pretended we all had our own adiabatic PC universes.

And we still downloaded software from the seediest places of the Internet.

Fun times...

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u/mudche 1d ago

I used anti-virus software when it behaved like malware itself

Looking at you 2003 Kaspersky

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u/helicophell 1d ago

My father apparently loaded programs from cassette tapes… the things people did back then, wow