Hey, look! Images as links earlier than 2001. It's prior art, man.
Hey, look! Images as links earlier than 2001. It's prior art, man.
All the buzzt!
CornedBee
"There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code."
- Flon's Law
I joined in 2000.
Remember how I dominated everybody at our
Tetrinet tournaments? That was rad.
Staying away from General.
I must have joined prior to 2001. I graduated college in 1999 and found cprog either during college or shortly thereafter. The board says 2001 but I think that is because one of the upgrades set all the early dates to 2001. My post count is also incorrect b/c one upgrade doubled our post counts and I'm not sure it was ever corrected.
Tetrinet? Was that some kind of online tetris thing?
What I like about both vBulletin and that old one I saw from the screenshots is that they both look quite simple. No fancy curves, no unnecessary images. Probably that's how most programmers, including me, like it.
"The Internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it." - John Gilmore
When the boards switched from Ultraboard to vBulletin in 2001, all user accounts were deleted and everyone had to recreate their user accounts. Nothing was transferred over (probably because the two different types of boards were incompatible in the way they stored their data). That is why you won't find a single user on here with a registration date earlier than Aug 2001 even though there are several who came here before that date. I have a pretty good memory.I must have joined prior to 2001. I graduated college in 1999 and found cprog either during college or shortly thereafter. The board says 2001 but I think that is because one of the upgrades set all the early dates to 2001. My post count is also incorrect b/c one upgrade doubled our post counts and I'm not sure it was ever corrected.
Tetrinet was only the most amazing online tetris ever.Tetrinet? Was that some kind of online tetris thing?
>> I arrived either in late 1999 or early 2000
did you have the same username back then? I'm pretty absent-minded, of course. I just don't remember that username being used...
>> These were the ancient days of the CBoard.
we really should bring back the Newbie C/C++ Board, btw.
Code:#include <cmath> #include <complex> bool euler_flip(bool value) { return std::pow ( std::complex<float>(std::exp(1.0)), std::complex<float>(0, 1) * std::complex<float>(std::atan(1.0) *(1 << (value + 2))) ).real() < 0; }
>>we really should bring back the Newbie C/C++ Board
Nobody wanted to post on it then and they wont now
I remember those days, I was registered with a different name but I can't remember what it was. :/
Meeeemoriieees
I had an account, believe it or not -- 'ratmilk' was the name I think.
Didn't post, because I found C too hard at the time and gave up (13 at the time, learnt PHP instead)
My account was under the name of "David". Then when the switch was made to vBulletin someone else got that name before me, and so I have been DavidP ever since.
Back when I used to, you know, post. All those 13H Mode and strcpy questions. "How do I clear the screen?" for the nth time, was the straw that broke the camels back and brought on the first version of the FAQ. And there was Sunlight... Personally responsible for single handedly dragging at least 1/2 the entire DOS programming community into the 32-bit era. We haven't seen religious or political debates lately of the magnatude and/or intellectual fortitude that I recall from back then either.
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"There's always another way"
-lightatdawn (lightatdawn.cprogramming.com)
It has been quite a long time since we have had a good religious debate. They used to happen quite frequently. Political debates still occur once in a blue moon, but religious debates have not been seen here for quite awhile.