I’m struggling with this post because it seems to imply that software quality has gotten worse over time. Bluntly put: I think this is nonsense.
I remember using Windows 9x, the running jokes about poor quality and security of all MS products. Adobe’s formats came from those early days and are roundly mocked. Hell, I’ve built replacements for 90s software and, I can assure you, what I replaced was not high quality or robust at all.
On this very site, we discussed Horizon: a project started in the 90s and 20000s that was so badly built that it led to hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters being imprisoned, bankrupted and a number committed suicide.
Is the author just romanticising the “good old days?”
I remember using Windows 9x, the running jokes about poor quality and security of all MS products. Adobe’s formats came from those early days and are roundly mocked. Hell, I’ve built replacements for 90s software and, I can assure you, what I replaced was not high quality or robust at all.
On this very site, we discussed Horizon: a project started in the 90s and 20000s that was so badly built that it led to hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters being imprisoned, bankrupted and a number committed suicide.
Is the author just romanticising the “good old days?”