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I love this kind of software archeology. I think I first came across this term in Vernor Vinge's book "A Deepness in the Sky".
by 2sk21 11y ago
I love this kind of software archeology. I think I first came across this term in Vernor Vinge's book "A Deepness in the Sky".
- pavedwalden 11y agoI'm not sure which Zones Of Thought book it was (probably Deepness in the Sky), but my favorite software joke in SciFi is when someone deep-diving into the system discovers that at the deepest layers timekeeping is still calculated from the UNIX epoch on the long lost human homeworld.
- acheron 11y agoReminds me of this: http://abstrusegoose.com/323 http://abstrusegoose.com/323
- madez 11y agoI wouldn‘t call it software archeology because it is still very much in use and modern standard.