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points by dofm 3 days ago | 0 comments

> At the time of this post, that’s a 33 years and 8 months old application,

Pointing this out without a trigger warning is just rude ;-)

Some of us are older than we think, yo.

I helped develop a web app used by major drug companies in 2001 that's still in use as far as I can tell. Marvel at the Dreamweaver-enabled design: https://resultview.q2labsolutions.com/resultview/logon/logon...

[–] thewileyone 2 days ago

I was the system tester for "a modern Internet-based application" in 1996 used by a global logistics company. Fast forward 25 years and I went to local logistic branch to ship out some packages. Out of curiosity, I peeked over the desk to look at what software they were using. It was the same 25-year old "modern Internet-based application".

If it ain't broke I guess. Long live ELMO!

[–] dofm 3 days ago

:-) Nice.

The oldest web app code of my own that I still maintain/evolve turned 20 this year, so yours is older than mine. I think it's largely a Ship of Theseus at this point, though I did just remove some code the other day that was absolutely untouched since 2008.