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At some point in time people will link to stack overflow, forum or similar support articles that are over 100 years old. (yiffit.net)
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Even if it's just an archived version, someone somewhere will find utility in IT or coding advice posted over a century ago.

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[โ€“] InfiniWheel@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Given some software is still dependent on stuff written like 20 years ago, it wouldn't surprise me if even a small part of some future program relies on century old code

[โ€“] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago

We (in much of Europe at least) rely on train lines and sewers laid out over 100 years ago and we refer to plans made then, so I think there's a high chance there's software around in 100 years which still works so never gets replaced (or gets upgraded but is the same at the core, I bet windows still has task manager barely modified)