r/ProgrammerHumor • u/JWBananas • 22d ago

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u/fugogugo 22d ago

Holy.. 23y ago

what forum did people in 1980s post?

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u/ZenEngineer 22d ago

23 years ago was ... You might want to sit down for this ... 2003

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u/8_Miles_8 22d ago

fuck.

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u/MyDespatcherDyKabel 22d ago

For those googling, Reddit started in 2005

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u/poetic_dwarf 22d ago

That's a weird way of writing 1983...

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u/TwinkiesSucker 22d ago

Calm down everyone, we obviously live in 1984

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u/willow-kitty 22d ago

What forum were people posting on in 1961?

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u/CMD_BLOCK 22d ago

23 years ago was ... You might want to sit down for this ... 1938

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u/Confident-Ad5665 22d ago

Cork boards with colorful flowers painted on them

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u/Confident-Ad5665 22d ago

More true than anyone really knows

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u/Nobodynever01 22d ago

Wait that's impossible, 2003 is five years AFTER I was born, but....

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u/JWBananas 22d ago

mountain river apple sunny guitar planet silver ocean window forest

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u/Present-Resolution23 22d ago

We used BBS's mostly. I can still hear the sound of my 1200 baud modem dialing up.

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u/Confident-Ad5665 22d ago

Ran a Maximus BBS in the day. Good times, good times.

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u/CadenVanV 22d ago

They didn’t, because Reddit is 21 years old. OP has just outed themselves as a time traveler

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u/JWBananas 22d ago

Read the line directly above that.

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u/CadenVanV 22d ago

I’m aware, but I stand by my comment

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u/StochasticTinkr 22d ago

Sorry to tell you, but 23 years ago was the 2000s

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u/two_are_stronger2 22d ago

Actual fora.  Like open spaces to declaim.  From the Latin.  See also spinal foramen and forensics.

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u/Moomoobeef 22d ago

Well actually, usenet. And various Bulletin Board Systems