nixCraft 🐧My IT career spans back to the days we FTP'd straight to production. Pretty sure my first gray hair sprouted right then. And that, my friends, is how you know you're seasoned 🤣
Andrew Wooldridge ⛰️@nixCraft our first doc site was a gopher page.
David de Groot@nixCraft If you haven’t read ed commands out over a phone to someone at a remote site to edit a production config, were you really in IT “back in the day” ?
Esteban Zapata Rojas
studio craque 54 🏳️🌈@nixCraft tftp and damn the torpedoes!
Nick@nixCraft Wait, so you invented DevOps? 😜
Daniel Evers
the hatter
I AM BANKSY ☕ / 🗑🔥@nixCraft
Some days, I still ftp to prod and backfill to version control.
"Some" might undersell this.
Jesse Rosen
Cody Boone Ferguson@camerageek @xinit @nixCraft I did that too. And then years later another project that used CVS we migrated to git. Then instead of using CVS for future projects I use git even though I prefer some things about CVS over git.
@camerageek @xinit @nixCraft .. actually perhaps that’s not quite right: I ended up using svn for a new project but then the CVS one was migrated to git. The svn one was either migrated (as in merged into) or changed (i.e. made a new repo) to git.
burag@nixCraft we always moved existing files to _backup first though.
Martin G@nixCraft password in plain text in some file (I don't remember which).
Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ@nixCraft I recall those days well, and why Friday afternoon deployments became anathema :D
harry_wwcencryption? where we're going we don't need no encryption.
Michael Richardson@nixCraft why did you need to FTP straight to production? Why not just compile the code there?
CodeByJeff
deepfryed@nixCraft You still have hair, well that ain't too bad.
Seth Galitzer@nixCraft My first linux install was to build an ftp server, so this checks out.
Ben Overmyer@nixCraft What's really strange is that lately I've begun to miss that era.
I think that's why I keep a Neocities site, where I have to edit the HTML/CSS/whatever by hand. No dev environment, just editing live.
lindesbs #FckAFD@nixCraft
Gopher and telnet
Gopher and telnet
@nixCraft in the 2017 (I think it was 2017) action comedy film The Hitman’s Bodyguard (hitman played by Samuel L Jackson and bodyguard played by Ryan Reynolds) the hitman (Darius Kincaid) refers to an FTP site. Because he wasn’t going to trust Interpol with the evidence. I guess most people who watch it don’t get it and the irony makes it even better since FTP is hardly secure.
Tito Ciuro@nixCraft No FTP for me! I used to send the CD via FedEx on Friday afternoon and install it Monday morning straight to production. Those were the days… 🤣