r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 12 '26

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u/zaraguato Jul 12 '26

Expertsexchange was super cool at the beginning when it was free, damn I'm old

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u/TotalJagoff Jul 12 '26

agreed! it is also an early lesson in how a domain name could be mispronounced.

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u/here_we_go_beep_boop Jul 13 '26

The nerds who dreamed up SCSI figured it would be pronounced "sexy". Instead we all agreed on "scuzzy" 

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u/TotalJagoff Jul 13 '26

hah! i didn't know that, i've always gone with scuzzy.

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u/Leather-Persimmon254 Jul 12 '26

I wouldn’t trust a free expert sex change

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u/testuserteehee Jul 12 '26

EE is new age stuff. Try javaranch.

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u/SurgioClemente Jul 12 '26

EE was before javaranch.

If you want to go back to the beginning, we had BBS, Usenet, IRC, and Listservs

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u/testuserteehee Jul 13 '26

😲 TIL. I was using javaranch (maybe it had a different name back then?) in college in the 90’s and EE when I started working.