Old Man Developer Quotes

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When I was your age, I coded with peeks and pokes.

I used to code with a chisel and a stone tablet

Back in my day, a fork lift was required for hardware upgrades, we didn't have fancy cloud services with sliders to add more memory and disk space

We didn't have network attached source control...  instead I called the intern working as a data entry clerk and dictated my code to them for transcription and storage

I was coding before MCSE meant must consult someone else

the only config file i ever needed was config.sys
I remember the first year where linux was going to take over the desktop
you can take my wordstar from my cold dead fingers
visicalc was the best calc
source control? you mean like when I got my basic program printed in the back of a magazine?

What do you mean, your code doesn't run on the Antikythera Mechanism?

I knew computers when they were people sitting in a room with a slide rule
I've been paid by the k.l.o.c.
lynx is still my default browser
telnet is still my email client
I remember when I couldn't afford a nibble, let alone a byte
The fastest network I ever saw was a station wagon filled with backup tapes
I've surfed the web with Gopher
I've used reverse Hungarian notation for longer than Hungary's been a country

In my day a HOSTS file was kept in a Rolodex.
Gooey really was...gooey.

Back in my day we didn't do any of this object oriented programming. We put it all in one long page and liked it.