29 here. Also I think there are a lot of age statistics on hn regulars somewhere.
I really first started coding in 2009 ever. But I Know I took a few courses in 2002 but never really got into it. As well as a little dabble in mid late 90s. I was a late bloomer into programming. But now I'm in grad school for computer science and am doing quite well and absolutely love programming.
> Ah, nostalgia. There are closed Solaris SPARC specific bugs in the issue tracker :)
Nostalgia indeed, that's like a whole other era by now. There's a lot of technology like that that's just on the edge of my memory -- like the Token Ring networks I would see even into the mid/late-90s.
no, you'll be surprise it is actually people...I occasionally get the unexpected email from someone in china asking for help with some of my old stuff.
If I remember correctly, this is an auto-adding bot for MySpace, back when I ran a website for people to add each other and boost their friend count. Thinking back, I just built a digital orgy for MySpace whores. Cool.
The oldest code I'm aware of is the content management system that runs infoprint.com, written in 1998 when that product line was a division of IBM.
I know they have been modifying/updating it for the past 15 years, but I can tell from the URL structures that it is still the same architecture. I'm sure some lines of code remain from back in my day, but I am equally sure that it has been re-factored many times over. so it is much more their code than mine at this point.
I am 28, I started writing code at 9. Started writing AOL "proggies" at about 11. Wrote mail servers, mass mailers, and some other fun tools for distributing "warez".
My handle was "chud" (shamefully). I wrote tools called Tragic, Mystified, and Tsunami -- all still found on random angelfire sites.
I'm 20. I wrote this when I was 15 or 16, put it on GH when I was 16: https://github.com/Macha/Machat/commits/master . Basically an IM system. It wasn't very good, it worked at some point but I don't recall if it was working as I left it.
Most stuff on that GH account is pretty terrible, I stopped using it a few years ago so it's mostly a reminder of "Remember when you were bad at this?". I have one under my actual name nowadays which has stuff in a more professional state, but is still pretty disorganised.
Previously there was a school website I created when I was 14, but that got replaced with something in the last year or so.
I'm 53. This rather crude little website I wrote has been online for 14 years (since 1999). Some folks subsequently have monkeyed around with some of the content, but the basic design is mine, still intact.
I'm 45. Oldest code I could find is 18 years old. Game was from 1995 - last code drop was 1998. I thought I had some Commodore stuff from the early/mid-80's up, but can't find it. Ack! :)
Sorry it's a bit boring, but the "online" requirement kind of skews the answers, doesn't it? Should I upload some more-interesting older code so it can be online too? :)
The best part about this horrible, -horrible- code is that it was actually a vast improvement over the codebase it was built upon.
I think you get a CVE advisory when you google it - not my proudest moment. But seriously, I am still pretty proud that as a 14 year old that my phpbb mod ended up installed on some pretty massive forums (my favourite was steve vai's website, but it isn't live anymore, of course! :p) it solved someone's problem, at the end of the day.
That you do [1]. But I would be proud of that! Not many people write side projects important enough to (a) have someone use it enough to notice a problem and (b) have it be important enough that a CVE advisory is issued at all.
I'm sure most people have written code with vulnerabilities over the years. I'm sure I have. Just most of it isn't worthy of being noticed :)
I'm 16. The oldest code of mine that I can find online is a PHP script that I wrote when I was 13. It logs in a MySQL database how many people are on a website. One of the first things I've ever written.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 146 ms ] threadI am a lurker on HN and often find programming/technical debates that rage around here amusing.
I am curious what the age distribution and general programming/geeky background of the HN crowd is. I am going to guess it probably skews younger.
Me:
33
oldest I could think of:
http://bit.ly/9EKSur
Used to hangout at Slashdot and CodeProject way way back.
I sent it to a German computer magazine and they paid me 200 bucks. It was the first money I earned with programing and it made me really proud.
Almost a quarter of a century I accidentally found that Determinator is still alive: http://plus4world.powweb.com/news/710
I really first started coding in 2009 ever. But I Know I took a few courses in 2002 but never really got into it. As well as a little dabble in mid late 90s. I was a late bloomer into programming. But now I'm in grad school for computer science and am doing quite well and absolutely love programming.
Oldest code I could find is a project on Sourceforge that I created in 2001: http://sourceforge.net/projects/edubase/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/count/
"The count program is a very simple utility that recursively counts the size of directories, optionally producing a per-directory breakdown of usage."
Ah, nostalgia. There are closed Solaris SPARC specific bugs in the issue tracker :)
Nostalgia indeed, that's like a whole other era by now. There's a lot of technology like that that's just on the edge of my memory -- like the Token Ring networks I would see even into the mid/late-90s.
I wrote a bunch of global scripts while a member of a social MUD called The Chatting Zone between 1997 and about 2002.
I just looked and apparently the server was taken down last year or so. This makes me a little bit sad.
Other than that there seems to a be a few websites I developed or contributed to around 10 years ago that haven't been changed.
http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/104814-arrays-in-aut...
If I remember correctly, this is an auto-adding bot for MySpace, back when I ran a website for people to add each other and boost their friend count. Thinking back, I just built a digital orgy for MySpace whores. Cool.
The oldest code I'm aware of is the content management system that runs infoprint.com, written in 1998 when that product line was a division of IBM.
I know they have been modifying/updating it for the past 15 years, but I can tell from the URL structures that it is still the same architecture. I'm sure some lines of code remain from back in my day, but I am equally sure that it has been re-factored many times over. so it is much more their code than mine at this point.
My handle was "chud" (shamefully). I wrote tools called Tragic, Mystified, and Tsunami -- all still found on random angelfire sites.
This one still has screenshots of some of my programs: http://amp.00server.com/server.html
Other links: http://www.freewebs.com/chewee/aolprograms.htm
Wonder if any of you were around the AOL scene back in the day.
:)
I started on AOL stuff as well, though I quickly moved on to websites, where I still am today.
Most stuff on that GH account is pretty terrible, I stopped using it a few years ago so it's mostly a reminder of "Remember when you were bad at this?". I have one under my actual name nowadays which has stuff in a more professional state, but is still pretty disorganised.
Previously there was a school website I created when I was 14, but that got replaced with something in the last year or so.
http://rivervalleyradio.com
Hah! Birthdays at your house must be really big events, each taking twice as long to appear as the previous one.
Maybe that's not such a bad idea. As we get older, time seems to pass more quickly, so ...
http://www.ratajik.net/TunnelWars/
(And YES, that IS a OS/2 program!)
My Commodore 64 game "Space Caverns 64" was published in Run Magazine in 1986, and you can get it here: https://archive.org/stream/run-magazine-36/Run_Issue_36_1986...
(Note: there are a bunch of ugly tricks to get the code to fit onto one single C64 40x25 character screen.)
I wrote some java applets (demoing the half life of radiation) in the summer of 1998, but couldn't track them down.
http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/coda/src/coda/coda-src... (and various other files in that directory)
Sorry it's a bit boring, but the "online" requirement kind of skews the answers, doesn't it? Should I upload some more-interesting older code so it can be online too? :)
The best part about this horrible, -horrible- code is that it was actually a vast improvement over the codebase it was built upon.
I think you get a CVE advisory when you google it - not my proudest moment. But seriously, I am still pretty proud that as a 14 year old that my phpbb mod ended up installed on some pretty massive forums (my favourite was steve vai's website, but it isn't live anymore, of course! :p) it solved someone's problem, at the end of the day.
I'm sure most people have written code with vulnerabilities over the years. I'm sure I have. Just most of it isn't worthy of being noticed :)
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2005-4529
It's pretty bad haha, but that was me at 14.
https://github.com/lukemiles/php-users-online