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I bet I have most people beat here, especially with web software. I released the first content management system for websites back in about 1995. It was a full
by gotrythis 10y ago
I bet I have most people beat here, especially with web software.
I released the first content management system for websites back in about 1995. It was a fully database driven system with different post types, much like WordPress in design, and editable page content.
About 15 years ago, I wrote an entire web-based system for managing an online grocery delivery company. The whole site runs off of version 2 of that content management system, which had lots of the version 1 code in it, which is now 21 years old.
And yes, they are still running their whole business off of that unmodified system today! I should have put them onto a monthly maintenance plan. ;-)
Sadly, I hear that they will be finally replacing it soon, putting an end to that legacy code.
- brlewis 10y agoDecember 10, 1994 was my first checkin of cgiemail: http://web.mit.edu/wwwdev/src/cgi/RCS/cgiemail.c,v http://web.mit.edu/wwwdev/src/cgi/RCS/cgiemail.c,v I found at least one live instance of it still running: www.uwo.ca/cgi-bin/cgiemail/somedept/questions3.txt I'm not sad that it's mostly replaced.
- gotrythis 10y agoThe sad part for me, is that I wanted to be the one replacing it. I had a vision for that company that I had been thinking about for years, and pitched it, but he wanted to keep his company a lifestyle business that just gets by. The idea of growing and making real money scared him off. The new developer got paid $5K over the last 2+ years to create it. Curious to see it when it comes out.
- i336_ 10y agoIt would be very interesting to be able to browse through a site known to be running off a 15-year-old CMS.