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A dead programming forum with posts dating back to the early 90s
- 51lver 8y agoIt might be more courteous to link to a mirror.
- wild_preference 8y agoTry to register.
- loeg 8y agoIt is a mirror. Of usenet.
- sparky_ 8y agoAhh, some thing never change [1]. 1: https://i.imgur.com/Kc5xPLG.png https://i.imgur.com/Kc5xPLG.png
- kjeetgill 8y agoI was really hoping it was going to be posts saying C or Java were dead. Alas, it was regex.
- cutety 8y agoI can give you something close to that. In a thread from 1995[1] some users were skeptical and not buying the C++ hype: > A typical programmer uses FORTRAN, COBOL, C or if they believe the hype, C++. Typical programmers don't use functional languages. From quite a few posts I saw I gathered that a lot of people thought C++ was not going to gain any real adoption, and an OO C was stupid. Which, looking at it from today’s point of view is hilarious. Makes you wander what new thing we’ll all think is just a trend but will become ubiquitous in 20 years. [1] http://computer-programming-forum.com/23-functional/b8bd46e4ad6020cd-3.htm http://computer-programming-forum.com/23-functional/b8bd46e4...
- porphyrogene 8y agoThat seems to be a commom theme. Reading this, I feel guilty for not actually understanding how to compose a regular expression. I use a generator when one is necessary. http://computer-programming-forum.com/39-ruby/b1f5cedd0825723b.htm http://computer-programming-forum.com/39-ruby/b1f5cedd082572...
- andrewflnr 8y agoEach sub forum seems to have died suddenly at some date, different for each one. What's going on here? It's like the scene in a book where they're going through the remains of some dead civilization and saying "food still on the table, doors open... Whatever happened here, it happened suddenly."
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- sparky_ 8y agoThe eruption of Mount Stackoverflow has perfectly preserved these poor, Perl-scripting souls.
- xg15 8y agoI guess with this revealed as being fake, the solution is: each "subforum" is really the copy of a different newsgroup, and each copy was covering a different time range.
- andrewflnr 8y agoFigures. What a disappointing mystery.
- guidovranken 8y agoIt seems like a news group dump. Compare http://computer-programming-forum.com/80-microsoft-visual-c-vc/0b6f3eab01a03b14.htm http://computer-programming-forum.com/80-microsoft-visual-c-... https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/%22Don$27t$20want$20to$20clutter$20up$20this$20news$20group%22/microsoft.public.vc.ide_general/Mo3jbH2KbDc/LA__W0630-QJ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/%22Don$27t$20want$2... Wayback Machine earliest snapshot is from 2012. It probably never was a proper forum.
- CommieBobDole 8y agoAlso the domain was registered in 2012. Probably a newsgroup dump in support of some spam or ad fraud scheme. https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=computer-programming-forum.com https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=computer-programming-...
- wild_preference 8y agoFor fun, notice the Chinese IIS 404 page. http://computer-programming-forum.com/foo http://computer-programming-forum.com/foo My guess is that someone just wants this to rank in search engines to any degree and then boost some SEO juice off it. I tried using old Usenet archives for a content site before and couldn't overcome Google's dupe penalty despite my own value-adds.
- CommieBobDole 8y agoAlso the "Powered by ybChaxun" link goes to a page that seems to be a listing of Chinese postal codes.
- devoply 8y agoThat was my guess without even looking. Forum software did not exist in the early 90s.
- geoelectric 8y agoThat's not true. It was just bespoke. The first general-purpose "forum" software was mid-90s per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum but initial one-off implementations grew out of the BBS scene that goes back to the 70s and 80s. They were pretty universally crappy, and just north of "guest book" comment lists, but they did exist. That said, enough of the early stuff in here mentions newsgroup that it was at least seeded from Usenet. By 2000, though, Usenet was essentially dead for actual communication use so I'm guessing the later stuff in here was done within a forum. Might not have been this forum, though. It's on phpBB, which only goes back to 2000, and more tellingly, the domain was registered in 2012.
- loeg 8y agoFrom the title I was guessing "Experts Exchange." Does anyone remember that?
- theOldManTheBoa 8y agoI remember Expert Sex Change. Strangely, it didn't have the expertise I expected.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 8y agoThat one has only faded into obscurity in the last 5 years or so. I remember specifically searching for programming related content on Google as late as 2012-2013 and getting Experts Exchange results. I search every single day now for programming related content though and haven't seen an Experts Exchange result in at least the last 3-4 years.
- loeg 8y agoHappily — and for all of its faults — StackOverflow has killed EE in Google results. (Launched in 2008.)
- booleandilemma 8y agoYes! I actually found some answers there back in the day. The trick was to scroll down all the way to the bottom to see them.
- cecilpl2 8y agoDo you remember when they changed the domain from "expertsexchange.com" to "experts-exchange.com"? I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader why. :)
- u801e 8y agoI guess the opposite is the case with "therapist.com" ;) (though both possibilities have different DNS A records).
- pfarrell 8y ago