What kind of technology or programs have outlived their usefulness but were grandfathered in and hideous workarounds developed to maintain their legacy today?
Grandfather Thread
Samuel Russell
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Nathaniel Smith
Nice try satan. No dev will go to hell today.
Tell him nothing, people.
Austin Campbell
Everything you've ever heard of.
Everything.
And there's nothing wrong with it.
Michael Powell
x86
Evan Howard
Any financial system birthed with COBOL decades ago.
Nobody is gonna touch this shit and rewrite it into something readable, too risky.
Aaron Morgan
John Garcia
Windows
Asher Moore
Yes I'm sure this conversation from 2003 on the merits of x86 mean it's still a good ISA in 2019.
Julian Foster
William Garcia
Benjamin Mitchell
The entire fucking Windows kernel
Samuel Smith
Unix
Easton Green
Why, IE, of course.
Jordan Phillips
ActiveX
Basically all surveillance dvr software
IIS
Brayden Price
Second
Chase Smith
HDDs
Asher Sullivan
linux
Benjamin Baker
Nothing significant has really changed since that time, except 64-bit extensions got rid of the PAE shit he was complaining about and also allowed x86 to finish off all of the dinosaurs in the high-end too for which 64-bit was pretty much their only remaining selling point besides legacy software.
Christopher Bell
The ghosts of my kind would all cry YES
Robert Gomez
Virtually every standard communication protocol from the 80s and earlier. Shit was not designed to handle billions of devices trying to talk to each other, but here we are.
Julian Diaz
This. Burn every protocol related to E-Mail to the ground. The fact that we STILL have spoofed addresses in 2019 is a SHAME.
Adam Cruz
>ie
>still relevant
Anthony Thomas
NT's got potential, it's the userland and MS that's holding it back
Elijah Barnes
the underlying windows kernel is modified/rewritten relatively frequently
Adam Brown
what could go wrong?
Levi Walker
/dev/tty0
Mason Reyes
>tfw even today X is essentially a virtual printer that "prints" 60-144 pages per second
Grayson Scott
Wow, might as well look at blank screens. According to y’all we should be using the Fallout terminals.
Ryan Butler
>grandfathered
is this the new blacked?
Ethan Hughes
mcdonalds stores used telnet to communicate with the master server until like two months ago. you had to do inventory and scheduling and all of that stuff through a command line interface like you were dialing into a BBS.
its some web frontend now that i am almost certain is the exact same backend as before you can just use a mouse now
Gabriel Morris
There's other stuff like that too.
Medical companies using decades old (proprietary) systems because they "can't" move their databases.
I mean, what could go wrong?