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Ask HN: What's the Oldest App You Still Use Daily

5 points by schappim 1y ago

For me it is an old version of FlyingLogic before they went subscription only.

schappim 1y ago
For me it is an old version of FlyingLogic before they went subscription only.
codingdave 1y ago
cmd.exe came out in '82, so it is 7 years ahead of bash which was '89, so I think it wins.
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mycroft_4221 1y ago
Total Commander - https://www.ghisler.com/ https://www.ghisler.com/ Swiss army knife for file/SFTP/… operations on Windows
- tifkap 1y ago
  On windows it is still my go-to filemanager (although double commander does the same)
sema4hacker 1y ago
Excel and Word from Office 97.
benoau 1y ago
Assuming you mean phone, I think every app I use is more than 10 years old. The app ecosystem has not been worth exploring in many years for me. I bet most of the app installs these days are just kids tapping misleading ads they see in bad games.
Uzmanali 1y ago
WinSCP and IrfanView.
api 1y ago
The obvious answer is CLI stuff like bash, grep, sed, xargs, tar, etc. The shell suite found on Linux and macOS systems can contain code dating back to the 1980s. There’s some really ancient code in there. No need to change it. For UI apps there’s not much I use that’s that old.
j4nek 1y ago
my mail user agent says: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
k310 1y ago
Trunk Notes on iOS. It even runs on mac since Apple Silicon. Some may be older. Ones I actually port to new machines and use are the perl "ren" script and the rdb relational database (perl) by Hobbs. Source: https://github.com/ironsmith58/RDB/tree/master https://github.com/ironsmith58/RDB/tree/master Article: https://seann.herdejurgen.com/samag.com/html/v11/i01/a6.htm https://seann.herdejurgen.com/samag.com/html/v11/i01/a6.htm Docs as pdf: https://casegroup.rutgers.edu/lnotes/ccb550/spring20/RDB.pdf https://casegroup.rutgers.edu/lnotes/ccb550/spring20/RDB.pdf
solardev 1y ago
Gmail is pretty ancient now. Webstorm too.
tifkap 1y ago
vi(m), sc (the spreatsheet), awk, Perl (for quick oneliners), mutt, grep, tcpdump

5 points by schappim 1y ago

For me it is an old version of FlyingLogic before they went subscription only.

schappim 1y ago

For me it is an old version of FlyingLogic before they went subscription only.

codingdave 1y ago

cmd.exe came out in '82, so it is 7 years ahead of bash which was '89, so I think it wins.

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mycroft_4221 1y ago

Total Commander - https://www.ghisler.com/ https://www.ghisler.com/ Swiss army knife for file/SFTP/… operations on Windows

tifkap 1y ago
On windows it is still my go-to filemanager (although double commander does the same)

sema4hacker 1y ago

Excel and Word from Office 97.

benoau 1y ago

Assuming you mean phone, I think every app I use is more than 10 years old. The app ecosystem has not been worth exploring in many years for me. I bet most of the app installs these days are just kids tapping misleading ads they see in bad games.

Uzmanali 1y ago

WinSCP and IrfanView.

api 1y ago

The obvious answer is CLI stuff like bash, grep, sed, xargs, tar, etc. The shell suite found on Linux and macOS systems can contain code dating back to the 1980s. There’s some really ancient code in there. No need to change it. For UI apps there’s not much I use that’s that old.

j4nek 1y ago

my mail user agent says: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

k310 1y ago

Trunk Notes on iOS. It even runs on mac since Apple Silicon. Some may be older. Ones I actually port to new machines and use are the perl "ren" script and the rdb relational database (perl) by Hobbs. Source: https://github.com/ironsmith58/RDB/tree/master https://github.com/ironsmith58/RDB/tree/master Article: https://seann.herdejurgen.com/samag.com/html/v11/i01/a6.htm https://seann.herdejurgen.com/samag.com/html/v11/i01/a6.htm Docs as pdf: https://casegroup.rutgers.edu/lnotes/ccb550/spring20/RDB.pdf https://casegroup.rutgers.edu/lnotes/ccb550/spring20/RDB.pdf

solardev 1y ago

Gmail is pretty ancient now. Webstorm too.

tifkap 1y ago

vi(m), sc (the spreatsheet), awk, Perl (for quick oneliners), mutt, grep, tcpdump