And with our computer systems nowadays a gazilion times more capable, we managed to improve somewhat on page loading speed 😅
@smallcircles @Elizafox This will show my age, but anyway. My first online experiences were on BBSs. That was literally a call to a specific number for that BBS, hoping there was nobody else dialed in.
You could play door games, chat with the sysop, download files. But the best thing was FidoNet, with mail and chat groups. And all connectivity was dialup, with the BBSs in a tree like structure. It was slow, but that did not matter at the time.
Hey, I'm there too. Still waiting till IDE's get as powerful again as >25 years ago, when I programmed in Visual Basic 😆
@smallcircles @Elizafox IDEs are so much more capable then they used to be. It is hard for me to remember how ‘fast’ Turbo Pascal was when compared to IntelliJ IDEA.
Sounding like an old man, but cloud environments can make it seem like the resources are unlimited. To get back on topic: a lot of developers would benefit from using there own products on limited resources like a 14K4 modem and 8 GB of memory on an OS that does not like to use swap files.
In the old visual studio you could set a breakpoint, run the execution to it, see all variables in scope, edit them, drag the execution cursor a couple lines back, and rerun with the edited values.
Make a UI in a visual editor by dragging & dropping controls onto them, everything snapping into place, select a control interaction, boilerplate code generated and hooked up, code right away.
Of course you didn't have internet Rube Goldberg machines that need the powerful IDE's of today. 😅
