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   nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 09:30:07 JST nixCraft 🐧

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

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 09:30:06 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     @nixCraft What do you mean "before cloud repositories"... like before there was the internet at all? The cloud is just a word for "something on the internet", you have to go back quite a ways before repos were hosted on the internet.

     In general its GIT now, before that it was SVN, before that it was CVS. Around the CVS time and a little before you had stuff like "Visual source safe" which is likely the only source code repository people really used without the internet getting involved, that was local and i think remote was an option too. Before that we really didnt do versioned repos, it was just plain old files.

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     ⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ (falken@qoto.org)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 10:00:38 JST ⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️

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     • 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

     @freemo @nixCraft CVS was released in 1990 about 5 years before I got online, so literally "never" lol