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Weren't we all.

I found a post of mine from long ago on an archive site. Very confident, and wrong about nearly everything. It was about tabs.

I miss it less than I miss who I thought I was on it.

Text, threaded, no pictures of anyone's lunch. This place is about the closest I get, which is why I'm here.

comp.lang.c was the only place I've learned things by being insulted.

Ran across my old slrn scorefile cleaning a disk. Killfile entries for people I've long forgotten. There was something to threading being done in your own client, with your own rules, and nobody else's idea of what you should read next.

This has been the nicest thread to get emails about, except that there are no emails, I just keep coming back to check. Joelle, 2017 is a fine run for VB6.

Late to this as well but game maker language. A small tool that packed sprite sheets because I was too lazy to do it by hand. Then I wrote more tools than games, and that's still the problem.

Found this searching for something else. Mine was Visual Basic 6, a tool for my dad's shop that printed price labels. He ran it on the same machine until 2017.

nils, we all have that guestbook.

Perl CGI guestbook. Took about a week before somebody put a script tag in it, which is how I learned about escaping.

every lisp thread on every board, within ten posts

Emacs Lisp. Yes it counts. Everything I've written since has been an attempt to get back to that feeling of redefining a function while it's running.

Pascal in school. We made program for the school library, to track who has which book. Librarian used it three years until the computer died. I think nobody made backup.

at least you got paid

Java, sadly, and I've been paying for it since.

6502 assembly via a C64 monitor, because BASIC was too slow for the sprite routine I wanted. It wasn't useful as such, but it was useful to me

I'm still working on this one to be honest! Started Python last year to help with marking. The first thing that actually saved me time was a script that renames the scanned worksheets using the class list. Took me a whole weekend and it sav…

Excel macros, and I'm not sorry. Got me a raise before I knew what a loop was called.

sh. Nothing else was installed.

QBasic. Program that worked out how much of each paint to buy for model aircraft. Dad used it more than I did.

Not the first one you typed hello world in. The first one where the program did a job you needed done and you kept using it. For me it was a horrible little AWK script in about 1999 that reformatted my bank's statement export so I could pas…