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Ask HN: Oldest Code Still in Production

3 pointsby 41209over 3 years ago
Hi HN<p>What&#x27;s the oldest code you&#x27;ve ever seen in production, as in it&#x27;s still running.<p>I&#x27;m imagining a very cheesey Netflix movie where our protagonist has to fix some code her late grandfather wrote. And in fixing this code she&#x27;s able to connect with him.

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gregjorover 3 years ago
Fortran&#x2F;assembly code dating from the 1960s, running electrical power distribution and commercial billing for a federal agency. That was in 1999-2000. As far as I know that system is still running today.
iabover 3 years ago
Uptime: Objects in the working-tree may appear closer than they are