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Bingo of crappy IT processes (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The person who wrote it has been gone for like four years

Four years? You gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers.

[โ€“] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

I recently learned that a web app I wrote in 1999 (for Internet Explorer lol) is still in use by the company I wrote it for. And this app was basically a graphical front end sitting on top of a mainframe application that dated to the 1970s, so my app's continued existence means that mainframe POS is still running, too. My app was written in Classic ASP and Visual Basic 6 - I truly pity whatever poor bastard has to keep supporting that shit. They probably have one ancient PC in a closet somewhere acting as the server for it.