I was cleaning out my old college stuff and found a floppy disk labeled 'Intro to C++'

It made me look up when the first 'Hello, World!' program was written, and I was shocked to learn it was from a 1978 book by Brian Kernighan. I guess I figured that simple example was way older, like from the 60s. Anyone else stumble on a piece of coding history that made you feel old?

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ivanl763mo agoMost Upvoted

Why are we acting like finding a floppy disk is some huge historical event?

river_gonzalez663mo ago

That specific floppy held the first draft of a major city's emergency plan from 1989. It's not about the disk itself but the lost data on it. Finding it changed how we understand their disaster prep history, right?

mary_ross3mo ago

It's like finding a grocery list from the Cold War. Shows what they were really worried about.