Ask HN: What's the oldest software you still use today? Inspired by the thread on ever-lasting software. |
Ask HN: What's the oldest software you still use today? Inspired by the thread on ever-lasting software. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(computing)
Although mine was written in 2010.
% tar --version
bsdtar 2.8.3 - libarchive 2.8.3
Edit:
Actually it's probably telnet which I use to get into lab equipment. First version is from 1973. The version I run was written in 1993.Irfanview comes to mind as the default image viewer for Windows
If not then I think it's Neko. http://splook.com/Software/Neko.html
Lately my Mac has been warning me that Neko will stop working soon once Apple drops support for 32-bit apps and that will be a sad day indeed.
>The VideoLan software originated as an academic project in 1996
Or, you surreptitiously hope it's much too inane, much as people do with puns. What should we call those who secretly love pedantry? "Pedantophiles?" Oh what a difference one syllable makes!
Am I doing this right?
GUI, used regularly: BBEdit, 1992
GUI, used infrequently: MS Word, 1983
GUI, not updated in forever: abandonware games played in DosBox
NCSA Mosaic -> Netscape 2, 3, 4/4.78, 6 -> Firebird -> Firefox -> Waterfox.
I have run other web browsers such as Opera and Vivaldi, but my main browser has always been and will always be a Mozilla product.
foobar2000 vim (I was still being breastfed when Bram started)
Wikipedia says grep is from 1974.
Cat, chmod, chown, comp, cp, date, df, du, ed, find, ln, ls, mailx, mkdir, mv, nm, od, pr, rm, rmdir, sort, strip, tty, unlink, wc, who, and write are from Version 1 Unix - Nov 1971!
The page for ed says: "It was one of the first parts of the Unix operating system that was developed, in August 1969."
Oldest unsupported? I have some VB6 tools I use to make tilesets for Sega Genesis homebrews.
GNU emacs goes back to 1985, although I used TECO emacs before that.
But ed is older, although what is in use today is probably GNU ed, which was written after GNU emacs.
If only for the music tracks.