Wow I really am getting old…

[Pierce Manhammer]

After 34 years, one of the ’Net’s oldest software archives is shutting down

Hobbes OS/2 Archive: "As of April 15th, 2024, this site will no longer exist."

arstechnica.com

Damn. I remember repurposing RS6000’s and IBM boxes to run Linux/Apache installs. Wow I’m old.

 

[AmsterdamAssassin]

Damn. I remember repurposing RS6000’s and IBM boxes to run Linux/Apache installs. Wow I’m old.

In my previous house I had a landline connected to a rotary phone.

 

[BillyPilgrim]

In my previous house I had a landline connected to a rotary phone.

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And a lamp hanging three feet off the ground..

 

[AmsterdamAssassin]

And a lamp hanging three feet off the ground..

Over the folding table.


And now it's over my dinner table in my current house.

 

[MatureDJ]

After 34 years, one of the ’Net’s oldest software archives is shutting down

Hobbes OS/2 Archive: "As of April 15th, 2024, this site will no longer exist."

arstechnica.com

Damn. I remember repurposing RS6000’s and IBM boxes to run Linux/Apache installs. Wow I’m old.

I once got a programming gig in the early '00s where OS/2 was used. I was like WTF? Most amazing piece of sheet ever to compile C++.

 

[Pierce Manhammer]

OS2 was its own thing no doubt, that’s why I wiped the boxes and tossed Linux on them like pre dot 1.

NeXTSTEP was much more fun, the Mach kernel was pretty cool. BSD was/is solid.