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The "I Grew Up With No Internet" Starter Pack

The "I Grew Up With No Internet" Starter Pack
Oh honey, this is the ULTIMATE nostalgia bomb for anyone who learned to code when dinosaurs roamed the earth and modems sang their beautiful 56k songs! We've got Windows Solitaire (the OG procrastination tool), Space Cadet Pinball (because who needs actual physics engines?), MS Paint (where EVERY artist was born), and Minesweeper (the game that taught us Boolean logic without even knowing it). These weren't just games—they were SURVIVAL TOOLS for baby programmers waiting for their 10-line "Hello World" program to compile. You'd click run, alt-tab to Pinball, get a high score, come back, and your code STILL wasn't done compiling. The pre-Stack Overflow era was WILD, y'all. You either figured it out yourself or you perished. No tutorials, no GitHub copilot, just you, your floppy disk, and pure determination!

Inherit Tense: When Family Trees Meet Inheritance Trees

Inherit Tense: When Family Trees Meet Inheritance Trees
Two types of inheritance in the wild: OOP inheritance where classes inherit properties, and then there's the family kind where you inherit legacy COBOL code last touched by someone's mother in the 90s. Talk about technical debt with actual family drama! This poor soul didn't just inherit methods and properties—they inherited decades-old spaghetti code with a side of maternal guilt. And somewhere, a CS professor is crying because this is definitely not what they meant by "parent-child relationships" in class diagrams.

When No-Code Solutions Trigger PTSD

When No-Code Solutions Trigger PTSD
The classic "monkey puppet" meme perfectly captures the thousand-yard stare of veteran programmers when someone claims "you don't need to be a programmer to write software." That statement might sound innocent to the uninitiated, but anyone who survived Visual Basic, FrontPage, and Dreamweaver in the 90s knows the horror that follows. Sure, drag-and-drop interfaces made software "accessible" – right until you had to debug the absolute nightmare of auto-generated code that looked like it was written by a caffeinated toddler with a keyboard. The right panel showing ancient UI builder software is giving me flashbacks I didn't consent to.