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You know you're old when.....
TimFox:
And all UHF tuners were detent-free (continuous rotation), just like an AM dial.
rdl:
I remember watching myself on TV. There was a morning children's show produced by one of the three channels we had at that time. It was recorded live and then broadcast from tape with a delay. The audience always was made up of local kids. When it was done you could hurry home and see yourself in glorious black and white.
mansaxel:
--- Quote from: rdl on August 03, 2021, 07:18:26 pm ---I remember watching myself on TV. There was a morning children's show produced by one of the three channels we had at that time. It was recorded live and then broadcast from tape with a delay. The audience always was made up of local kids. When it was done you could hurry home and see yourself in glorious black and white.
--- End quote ---
This goes on to this day. I work at a TV station. We have a summer morning show with audience that used to be live but we've found out that it is more popular and has a better audience if we record it a day in advance, so the audience can see themselves tomorrow.
GlennSprigg:
(Recently)... When you find old bits of 'Code' you wrote years ago, or try to understand it!!! :scared:
I keep my old Laptop Hard-Drives, like some people have BOOKS! I 'must' go back, and find my old "Snippets"
software, where I used to keep/save all my old 'bits' of interesting & reusable Code, for the categorized use
of 'C', 'C++', 'Basic', 'JavaScript', 'Delphi' etc etc. Was a great way to have reusable bits/modules on hand!! 8)
P.S. Sometimes, I would DELIBERATELY write some confusing 'code', that perfectly did the job, but purposely resulted
in people way off track when trying to 'decipher' it, even if they go their hands on the Source-Code! :phew:
mansaxel:
--- Quote from: GlennSprigg on August 04, 2021, 12:26:58 pm ---(Recently)... When you find old bits of 'Code' you wrote years ago, or try to understand it!!! :scared:
I keep my old Laptop Hard-Drives, like some people have BOOKS! I 'must' go back, and find my old "Snippets"
software, where I used to keep/save all my old 'bits' of interesting & reusable Code, for the categorized use
of 'C', 'C++', 'Basic', 'JavaScript', 'Delphi' etc etc. Was a great way to have reusable bits/modules on hand!! 8)
P.S. Sometimes, I would DELIBERATELY write some confusing 'code', that perfectly did the job, but purposely resulted
in people way off track when trying to 'decipher' it, even if they go their hands on the Source-Code! :phew:
--- End quote ---
You know you're old when yes, you have code snippets like above, but instead of putting them on GitHub (the new way) or having a laptop HDD in storage (the medium-old way), you have an actual networked file system that is reachable from your computers and has history since you started with computers, available, on-line, without having to dig out a perhaps-spinning drive. And, there is not a single thing in this that runs over HTTP! Mostly because HTTP was not invented when version 1 of the system you're using was released.
As for me, when I dig out old code, one of two things happen:
* I understand it and am embarrassed.
* I do not understand / remember it, and am embarrassed only after I've reverse-engineered it.
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