cm0002@toast.ooo to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 7 hours agoThe good old dayslemmy.mlimagemessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1483cross-posted to: programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
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minus-squarepsud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-25 hours agoWhat was the website? I just had books in '95 and later, Geocities wasn’t great for chat, IRC and network news groups were the best places to get help The web was pretty small in the '90s I spent my time in newsgroups in role playing game flame wars
minus-squarepulsewidth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 hours agoIt was Experts Exchange. Then they paywalled everything like greedy idiots - hiding decades of useful community knowledge. Then everyone moved rapidly to StackExchange, which had coexisted but been quite small until EE did their thing.
minus-squareBenLeMan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-22 hours agoAh, software developing nerds and expertsexchange. A story as old as time. It starts with innocent questions, then thigh highs during long coding sessions and… you know the rest. It’s all in the name! 😅
minus-squareRothe@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·5 hours agoGo to any linux forum or help site today and you can experience it right now.
minus-squareivan@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·4 hours ago“Oh, someone had the same problem” as I see forum thread in search results, followed by finding out that thread turned into a gaslighting session on why OP’s problem wasn’t actually a problem, and no solution was provided as result. 🌝
minus-squareconartistpanda@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·4 hours agoWhy would you want to X? Dont X. Problem solved 😊
minus-squareprintf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·19 minutes agoThat smiley at the end. I laughed. 😂
minus-squaretrackball_fetish@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 hours agoAs a masochist, I enjoy the freebsd forum
minus-squareprintf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·21 minutes agoIt was right there.
What was the website? I just had books in '95 and later, Geocities wasn’t great for chat, IRC and network news groups were the best places to get help
The web was pretty small in the '90s
I spent my time in newsgroups in role playing game flame wars
StackOverflow
It was Experts Exchange. Then they paywalled everything like greedy idiots - hiding decades of useful community knowledge.
Then everyone moved rapidly to StackExchange, which had coexisted but been quite small until EE did their thing.
Ah, software developing nerds and expertsexchange. A story as old as time.
It starts with innocent questions, then thigh highs during long coding sessions and… you know the rest. It’s all in the name! 😅
Go to any linux forum or help site today and you can experience it right now.
“Oh, someone had the same problem” as I see forum thread in search results, followed by finding out that thread turned into a gaslighting session on why OP’s problem wasn’t actually a problem, and no solution was provided as result. 🌝
Why would you want to X? Dont X. Problem solved 😊
That smiley at the end. I laughed. 😂
As a masochist, I enjoy the freebsd forum
*freebdsm
It was right there.