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It's important to note that the core protocol of the internet used to be NCP, and everything was switched to TCP/IP at the start of 1983. Given the way people h
by mikewarot 3y ago
It's important to note that the core protocol of the internet used to be NCP, and everything was switched to TCP/IP at the start of 1983. Given the way people have dropped support for FTP and HTTP, and various encryption schemes for HTTPS, it is highly unlikely that anything networked would work correctly directly connected to the InterNet via Ethernet in 2123.
Software written in a compiled language distributed as an executable for MS-DOS or Windows 95/98/2000 are likely your best bet. Avoid .NET, and stick to either the MS-DOS documented API, or Win32 API. There are likely to be emulators for that running forever.
C Source code from even 2 decades ago is almost impossible to compile correctly, I learned that with my adventure with Stoic. Python from a decade ago doesn't work now either... I learned that with WikidPad. Too many upgrade obligations are built in to source code for them to work reliably in the future, unless you bring along the entire support tree from that time with them.