Dr. Dobb's Journal (articles from 1988 – 2009) (jacobfilipp.com)

A non-html collection of scans for that magazine feel: https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal

Some related discussion from a few months ago:

Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6 (2010)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47645010

If you look closely at the author list, you can see that some of the same names still hang out here, which is pretty cool.

It's also fun just to look at the article titles to see what the zeitgeist of the era was for a given time period.

My first article published there in 1995. Psyched to see it again. I was a terrible writer.

Look ma, my article!

Much more interesting though, is the special DDJ issue about C++ successor languages in 1993, already 33 years ago it as a subject relevant enough to warrant a full issue dedicated to it.

"Special issue, Beyond C++"

https://jacobfilipp.com/DrDobbs/articles/DDJ/1993/9310/9310t...

For all the complaints regarding language names one cannot search for, AT&T wins with C+@, yep that was the name.

https://jacobfilipp.com/DrDobbs/articles/DDJ/1993/9310/9310b...

The year thereafter, Perl and TCL were still considered alternative languages, before the Web really took off.

https://jacobfilipp.com/DrDobbs/articles/DDJ/1994/9415/9415t...

Or how safety in systems programming is being discussed in the Modula-3 and Oberon articles.

Found the December 1994 article I read that was my first introduction to HTML and helped me write my first home page. One of the few articles I read that has stayed with me for over 30 years