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Yep, this is me

I'm windows 3.1 old

Oh, sweetie - I'm IBM System 3 Model 6 old. You know, the big old hunk of iron that had no display, just a line printer that printed (eponymously) a single line ON PAPER after you hit the Enter key.

Don't forget using ftp in the browser that was a trip.

Did the same with TextPad but at least that had templates! That's how I learned HTML.... TextPad templates. haha

Same here. Actually I still just use notepad ! 😅

Yes, I am even older. Let me find a pic of a one line word processor.

I actually still develop in notepad at my current job. And for the programming lang 🥁🥁🥁… UniBasic 💾.

<b> I'M OLD! <b/> 😅

FTP 😂

I made a decision in 1998 to stick building hardware instead of learning software! Silly me, still trying to catch up 🤣

This was my third computer. oldcomputermuseum.com/prompt_80-85...

Back in the days, when we were Kings

Team Angelfire! What a cool name! 🔥

Javascript or vbscript? It was a wild start

I’m Atari old

I started website building in 1996… I suddenly feel very,very old.

Brings back many memories, thanks.

Actually older, have you heard of DOS 2.2 …. 300baud Modems to surf the internet.

Hell this is a youngster. How about the Commodore 64? My first computer. 1984. THAT is old.

Older than MSDOS here. The very first programming I did was in FORTRAN on an IBM360 mainframe in college.

Hey, same!

Oh my word. I started with the AT&T Vi and then moved on to MS-DOS edlin. When I interviewed years ago with a company (for an admin job), they asked what program I used for creating website and I said, "Notepad". She about fell out of her chair ...

I learned to code by building silly Geocities sites in middle school, then started making pocket money by doing custom HTML on Xanga, LiveJournal, and MySpace.

I stared on a 286 with dos. Then went to a 386 with Windows 3.1, then windows 95. Windows 2k was always the GOAT.

My Windows XP still working fine. Best OS Microsoft made.

DOS

older, that was my 2nd computer, my first was a compaq presario running Win 3.0 and eventually upgraded to Win 95, with a whopping 4 mb ram that cost $$$$$$

Shoulda tried xemacd

Older

That's not even that old.

Same. And pulled off some crazy coding for the time.

Windows 3.11 for networks when I was learning! Felt like the future.

Lol I'm dos 3 old

You're not old, I'm old...

I’m older. As a kid I played on my dad’s old pc which loaded everything from dos. I love playing F-16 Fighting Falcon. The monitor was grayscale.

95 old. Even pre-windows.

I'm MS-DOS old.

What is that mouse like that's so bad

BASIC -> AmigaOS -> DOS I'm this old, with this picture I feel like Gandalf :)

Ah you mean the death of dos 6.22. Those were the days. And The like 1 gig restriction 😝 Only for the war for IRQ’s 😝 yeah. Thems unresolved trauma for sure.

Older: NT4 -> W95 -> W3.1 -> DOS 🧓

I’m older :(

I think we all made that mistake until we went to show it to our more tech savvy friends, who immediately looked at us in horror.

Real coding! Me too. Best part of writing programs was to execute them and find very few bugs. Satisfaction level was extreme!

GOAT

It was about that time for me (98 era). I also remember my teacher at school telling me off for not making HTML tags all uppercase 😂😂

Unfortunately, yes, 😔 I refuse to believe I'm in my mid 30s now

I owned a comadore 64, and when you turned it on, a black screen appeared. You had to program yourself or buy a floppy disc program, which there really weren't many software programs for home use at this time. Damn im old. Thanks jen violet😂😂

Older. I'm this old

I am VIC 20 old.

Yes

I started with the DOS FTP system 🙂I quess i am realy old

pfffffffffft

Heck yeah! My coworker used Dreamweaver and I was still on notepad++

windows 3.1 ! the move to '95 was a game changer. XP was my favorite. Used frontpage express to build mine :)

Try Windows 3.1

We peaked with Windows XP

Or GoLive and PageMill

owned by macromedia

And of course there weren't pirated at all 😇

That wasn't that long ago was it?

LOL. I had a website back at Netscape v0.89 🤓

So old I avidly read Usenet Newsgroups in 1994.

Youngster! I started writing software for a living in 1988. 😜

I’m MS-DOS old!

Lol, I go back as far as Wang and DBaseII, perhaps beyond.

We had a similar setup in our living room. 3 kids and 2 adults one computer.

I'm sort of kaypro II / apple iie old

I'm Windows 3.1 old.

I bet you haven’t used punchcards… That’s what I call old…

dos 3.1 ouch

Windows 2.4

Yessir. I remember changing settings on regedit to change how windows looked, and felt like such a hacker.

Much older. Tandy 1000, C64, DOS old.

Never. Do not disrespect the old-school days. My old system still works. Thank you.

There used to be a webring for notepad-generated websites, lol. Mine was on there. It also had midi background music and an animated gif of a rotating can of Spam. It was a monstrosity.

at least notepad on 1998 hardware has better latency than modern VScode on a $2k laptop in 2024 🥲

older - vic 20 with cassette tape, upgrade to a commodore 64 before finally getting an Apple II

What a lovely trip down memory lane ! My First commercial program was in 1982… z80a assembly.. I love these throw backs !!

Children, gather around the fire and let me tell you a tale from ancient times! When computers were just a shell. No UI, no hard drive and programs were stored on cassette tapes. Let me tell you children about the Radio Shack TRS-80!

I don’t know anything about web dev, but I played the shit out of maniac mansion on my old units like this and eventually found AOL chat rooms 🤣

That sounds horrible. Kudos to you. Shows you really know your stuff!

Much older, sadly. But the things I've seen... I was one of the prerelease candidates for Windows 1.0. Yeah, that one. That was before hard drives. Before 3.5" floppies, even. I remember when those little things hit the market. Massive progress, for the time. And now, we have AI.

fr, first class in web dev...prof what ide we going to use for class. Notepad.

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Older...:P My first laptop was a Windows 95...and I am old enough to have uncovered a perfectly working windows 3.11 laptop with intact docking station when I was a young teen in the dump...it was already a relic at that point though...neat toy it was though lol...

I still have my original set of diskettes for Windows 98 and MSDOS too !

My first computer was a Texas Instruments 99 😆.

I remember when my first highschool web dev teacher was trying to force us to use Dreamweaver. I always opened notepad on the side and just typed everything manually there XD

Nah, bro, I’m *this* old:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Used_Punchcard_%285151286161%29.jpg

It was a badge of pride! I had a little graphic I scooped up somewhere that said "Made in Notepad - the right way!" or words to that effect

I beta tested that. The best part of it was the free access to Microsoft's Internet ... Lol

this isn't even that old lol. 26 years is just a third of a lifetime if even that.

My journey began with windows 3.0 😬😂

OLD? Iam 36 years young.. also the first PC we had is the MSX AKA Sakhr AX-150.. I was a 1yr old baby while My bother was around two & half~

Real people still use vi

i am i use windows 98 alot in a vm

This was around time I started my journey as an Autocad tech. That was state of the art back then lol

I'm this old........

For me it was XP but the notepad HTML website nostalgia is so real.

Pish. I date back to the C64 :-) Win95 was what I used when I wrote my first website in Notepad... Sometimes I feel so old...

Back when Windows NT4's Explorer (Exploder) wouldn't let you go to netscape.com to download Navigator - had to go to download.com and get it - once Navigator was installed, explorer would then let you go to netscapecom !! - 28 years ago and it seems like yesterday!

Older. Lol

Laughs in DOS.

I'm so old that I used that computer before it yellowed. I'm so old that Windows was a program you started after the computer booted. I'm so old that my screen came in two colors, green and black. I'm so old that the media that held my games could also be played in a boombox.

My first computer was a CDC 128. 1982. (Columbia Data Products) Two 5-1/2 floppies. No hard drive. No mouse. No modem. Used it for letters and spreadsheets. Ran Lotus 123. Had a scheduling program called VisiSchedule. Everything was done in DOS.

I’m old enough that I remember writing HTML in Notepad and uploading it. Magic times.

Nice. I started with the Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K with the rubber keys.

I'm "type 'dir' and see how fast the files list to see how fast the computer is" old.

Ha .... by '98, i'd already been through like 5 personal computers; from Atari 800 in HS, Atari 500, Apple IIe clone, and a 286&386. Oh, and a Mac classic, before it was classic. but I feel your pain of using Notepad for shit.

Im windows 3.1 old.

I'm this old 😂

I’m this old…and they came to campus asking students if they had an extra $2k to buy it…in the early ‘80s! Crazy expensive. And no printer.

I am that old... sweet sound of modem connection... hummm good old slow days

I am DOS 5 old 🤷‍♂️

I'm TRS80 old

A bit older in fact. Pure DOS!

Got MCSE on NT 3.51. So, so old...

Older. Windows 95 was my jam.😂

I remember

I can almost feel the static from those monitors

Been there and I'll raise you NT3.5 !

Yah 😀

saving .html instead of .txt