I really love articles about programming from the 90s. Everything was written in C/C++ and maybe some Perl. Working with file formats that may or may not have had specifications, building and using algorithms that you learned in comp sci classes. I miss those days. :(
It's so rare that web pages from the 90s still even exist on the internet. Sadly I have to do a lot of web surfing with the wayback machine as a proxy to the days of the past.
> Sadly I have to do a lot of web surfing with the wayback machine as a proxy to the days of the past.
I'd argue this is not sad, but incredible that the Wayback Machine has been so successful in preserving webpages as they've been revised, expanded, and deprecated. And if anything, it shows just how important the project and projects like it are for the preservation of the Internet's history.
Yes, you're correct. The Wayback Machine is truly incredible. I meant that it is sad that the pages disappear and it is often impossible to contact the original author.
It's so rare that web pages from the 90s still even exist on the internet. Sadly I have to do a lot of web surfing with the wayback machine as a proxy to the days of the past.