You know you are getting old when

Just a few things that make me feel old sometimes… what does the same for you?

  • someone’s definition of “legacy code” includes something you wrote
  • you know what “load *,8,1“ means
  • you remember when we used to call them “scripting languages“
  • you simply can’t continue to code after 2:30 AM
  • you had a BBS handle
  • this means something to you: “Hello everybody out there using minix -“
  • these screens ring a bell? : http://toastytech.com/guis/guitimeline.html
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2 Responses to “You know you are getting old when”

  1. How about when you get in a game of one-upsmanship comparing first computers and it sounds like this:
    “I had a Commodore 64″
    “I had an Atari 800″
    “I had a Sinclair”
    “Did you have a disk drive?”
    “No, but I had a cassette drive”

    Matt said this on December 14th, 2007 at 2:43 pm

  2. [...] his blog “Huikau?” my friend Mike wrote a post entitled “You know you’re getting old when” and he got me started.  If imitation is indeed the sincerest form of flattery, I believe he [...]

    Rocket Surgery » More “You know you’re old when…” said this on December 17th, 2007 at 8:45 am

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