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[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

All those wondrous IDEs were nowhere to be found 20 years ago, especially if you didn't run windows. While Emacs did it all and more.

So yes, you had to read the documentation. That's what we did back then. We still do it when someone can be arsed to write one.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)
[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I know, back then people knew what files and directories were. Good times.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That knowledge is gone. Everything is a web app running JavaScript in a browser. We don't need to be encumbered by pesky things like pages and folders. 😋

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