How did people program before?

Question

Programming

how did people program before, for example, in the same 90s, what did they write the code in, where did they get the information, how did they learn this or that jap? how did the development of such projects as google and the like take place

Answer 1

just like now: brains.
There were no search engines, but there were books, friends / teachers and a desire to do this.

Answer 2

Try to read books, they say, they learned from them

Answer 3

1 course, winter session is over, holidays. Voucher from the trade union to the sanatorium. Pascal's textbook from the university library, a couple of weeks of reading, since there is nothing more to do in the sanatorium anyway. Upon returning home, I insert a floppy disk with TruboPaskakal into my "Search", poking around with a dictionary to the point of exhaustion, since everything is in English, and at school I had the stupidity to drop it.
A few years ago. Vacation. A Python tutorial on a tablet, a week of reading when there is nothing else to do anyway. Upon my return, I launch PyCharm, write a service in Dzhang. Well, it’s easier here, everything is quickly googled, and since then my English has become better ...
However, neither Google nor SO does not free you from the need to think with your own head and make efforts.

Answer 4

1. Articles in magazines.
2. Books (I remember how every day I went to the bookstore so as not to miss new books on IT topics)
3. Official documentation. With some computers documentation on PL was delivered. Usually Basic, but sometimes in assembler
4. Built-in help in the IDE. For example, Turbo Pascal had good Pascal help.
MS generally distributed MSDN (a cool knowledge base about their languages ​​and environments) on disks (the artifact was valuable)

Answer 5

Previously, there was an order of magnitude more business, two orders of magnitude fewer banks, advertising, intermediaries, traffic jams, competitors, owners of means of production and investors.
There were no managers at all. And there were leaders (often from God), who ate a dog in the deed they were engaged in. We remember some even today, 30 years after their death. Will today's programmers come to the grave of their current team lead in 30 years? the answer is obvious.
Hence, the tasks were more interesting, varied, responsible. And you could do them for decades.
Any person was useful, not just young geniuses, who knew all the questions at the interview. But not able to connect two words with comrades or advise something.
The probability of receiving in response to your arbitrary question the phrase: "I'm busy, I have no time with you" was vanishingly small.
More time people spent in discussions of joint and events outside of work (and vacations spent together). Few, very few were personal projects.
There were many institutions. creating their machines, their operating systems, their programming languages.
And they really achieved a lot. They respected each other.
Fire you if you weren't an outright parasite. was impossible.
In general, the work was much more interesting. And the tasks were much more important and real both in programming and in material production.

Answer 6

Punch card
PS And Google was created in the same way as they are now programming, they were just lucky that they took a monopoly position

Answer 7

Google was born within the walls of Stanford University as part of a scientific project. History .
Previously, sites were basically directories of program sources under various headings, a kind of file dump. Instead of GitHub, there were just thousands of all sorts of FTP dumps, where various materials and ZIP / RAR files and other previously popular archive formats were dumped. Sometimes there were different versions of the same programs, with modifications (patches) that improved or changed functionality.
Once upon a time there were sites like programmersheaven.com with headings on programming languages ​​and others.
Take, say, the site https://pascal.sources.ru/rswag.htm - it is practically preserved in its original form. Living Museum. Unique case!
Here, on such a site, sources from other SWAG sources were collected, which was called RSWAG (Russian SourceWare Archive Group). Pay attention to the link in the menu on the left: https://pascal.sources.ru/upload.htm (not working now). And once she looked like this . And people themselves replenished with materials. Many viruses of all sorts were distributed in the same way, of course.
They asked on the forums (on such as on that site). So they learned, learning from each other's experience (and not the fact that the best).
In the walls of universities, students were running around with floppy disks (mostly games). At some time, they went to libraries and borrowed various books and magazines on computer topics from the reading rooms. I experienced such an era.

Answer 8

Sources of knowledge:
1) offline msdn on disks
2) books in the library. It seemed to be very long and inefficient - in a day of searching for a result, there was often less than one query brings to Google today. True, it was much broader, much of the search settled in the consciousness and subconscious and sometimes led to useful thoughts. Oh, and I once met a girl in the library.
3) samizdat and photocopies passed from hand to hand and sold on radio markets. Through this, by the way, they became friends / got to know each other, a common diagnosis brings them together.
4) communication at gatherings.
5)fido- echoes in the late 90s. They were also distributed in the form of self-made text sheets in local networks for those who did not have access. Sometimes it was helpful.