What is the most memorable piece of software that was shaping your personality and career?
This will be a bit of a nostalgic memory moment.
I believe that most makers got into computers at an early age and worked in programs that may have already fallen into disrepair, but were crucial for their development and career direction.
Which old software changed your life? :D
Here is a list of mine:
Sketchbook – this is where I drew houses and landscapes, the beginnings of my art (I was about 8 years old)
Notepad on Windows 1998 – this is where I wrote stories as an 8-year-old
Photoshop PS 4 – when I was 14 I edited my photos, mostly it was crap, e.g. I photoshopped a third eye onto my face :D
Sony Vegas – this is where I made my first videos (14 years old)
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Honestly, I think the biggest thing was just having a computer and being allowed to mess around with stuff.
@filipe_braiman_carvalho7457 at that time, it wasn't certain to have a computer. If you had one, you were the most popular kid in the class. The same applie to Playstation :D
LimeWire and then spending ages trying to figure out why the song wasn't the actual song.
@zarnappa_earnoor6478 I admire how the design changed in general. Back then, it was awful. :D
Winamp skins iykyk.
@james_sanders456 Their design was so 90s :D
Excel, weirdly enough. Started with making random spreadsheets and ended up enjoying the formulas more than the actual task.
@vriddhi_mittal27 Excel? :DDD are you real? :D I hate this one until now. :D
Does anyone else remember opening random programs just to explore every menu? No tutorial, just vibes.
@roger_wang27 That was me :D if there was too much text, I quit :D
I made some truly awful logos in old graphics software. Wish I still had them somewhere.
@bonnie_lu27 I would wish to have those images in the Paint too. :D relics.
Building a terrible website with a black background and neon text was basically a rite of passage.
@raaed_muggo12 I wanna see that website :D
The funny part is we weren't trying to learn anything. We were just bored and curious.
@xun_jiang12 True, we just tinkering around and it was the most spectacular thing in the room inside :D
@saksham_shukla28 What year was it, when you started experimenting?
An AI assistant made a failing test pass by weakening the assertion instead of fixing the code. The suite stayed green for days. Now I do not trust an automated diff without reading the test changes first.