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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 00:06:49 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Throwback time! Calling all coding veterans: Where did you stash your code before cloud repositories? 🤔

   • François 🇺🇦 (frankaulux@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 00:13:37 JST François 🇺🇦

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     @nixCraft

     why, you printed a copy, of course !!!!

   • John Maxwell (jmax@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 00:18:32 JST John Maxwell

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     @nixCraft Servers.

   • Barry Rowlingson (geospacedman@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 00:20:39 JST Barry Rowlingson

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     @nixCraft like this, except without a box, and scattered all over the desk.

   • LeftOfKarlMarx (leftofkarlmarx@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 00:24:33 JST LeftOfKarlMarx

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     @nixCraft

     Floppy disk.

     👴

   • Joseph Lamoree (jlamoree@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 00:39:12 JST Joseph Lamoree

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     @nixCraft RCS. Sometimes I still do.

   • Unix Monkey (rwsoft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 02:46:10 JST Unix Monkey

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     @nixCraft Recently I shredded a bounch of dot matrix printed pascal code…

   • gibeath (gibeath@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 04:17:37 JST gibeath

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     @nixCraft For those who cut their teeth on Microsoft tools... Visual Sourcesafe. It had a cool feature where its database would randomly shit itself and everyone using the repo could lose a ton of work

   • marcthenarc (marcthenarc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 05:14:57 JST marcthenarc

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     @nixCraft I've got 2 Western Digital MyBooks full of the stuff.

   • Chip35 (chip35@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 11:24:23 JST Chip35

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     @nixCraft I have never trusted the cloud but it does not particularly matter since I was into code before internet access was even a public thing. Now, not so much, I'm a troubleshooter.