{"id":1299,"date":"2013-03-10T16:54:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T15:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2024-10-14T13:37:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T11:37:21","slug":"ancient-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/2013\/03\/10\/ancient-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient code, long shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span class=\"dquo\">\u201c<\/span><em>The smallest of all&nbsp;seeds,&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>becomes the largest of garden plants:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>it grows into a&nbsp;tree,&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>and birds come and make nests in its branches.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Net is full of open-source code, and it seems that nobody cares about its preservation. If some old programs were to be preserved for the future, what would you choose? My <em>legal<\/em>&nbsp;choices are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerhistory.org\/atchm\/computer-history-museum-software-license-agreement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\"><span class=\"caps\">APL<\/span> source code<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mortdeus\/legacy-cc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">the first version of the C compiler<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/minnie.tuhs.org\/cgi-bin\/utree.pl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Unix Tree<\/a>: various old versions of&nbsp;Unix.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/s3data.computerhistory.org\/102658076_macpaint_acc.zip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MacPaint<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/s3data.computerhistory.org\/102658076_quickdraw_acc.zip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">QuickDraw<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerhistory.org\/atchm\/adobe-photoshop-source-code\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Photoshop<\/a> source code.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/id-Software\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">id Software<\/a> source code repository for their old&nbsp;games.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/apollo\/links.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apollo and Gemini<\/a> <em>program listings<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dquo\">\u201c<\/span>The smallest of all&nbsp;seeds,&nbsp; becomes the largest of garden plants: it grows into a&nbsp;tree,&nbsp; and birds come and make nests in its branches.\u201d The Net is full of open-source code, and it seems that nobody cares about its preservation. If some old programs were to be preserved for the future, what would you choose? My&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[15,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"http:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}