jsrn/howoldisit

A tool for recruiters to check how old a technology is.

How Old Is It?

A tool for recruiters to check how old a technology is.

Welcome to this non-exhaustive list of technologies and their approximate ages. I started this as a gentle dig at a subset of recruiters, and it has since been massively expanded upon by many contributors.

Running the Project

Run ruby build.rb to update the HTML template from your list of technologies and view the site in your browser of choice.

Adding a Technology

New technologies should be added to technologies.json in alphabetical order.

We're interested in:

• Programming languages such as Ruby or C++.
• Programming language frameworks such as Ruby on Rails or Laravel.
• Programming adjacent tools such as Kubernetes or TravisCI.

Check the list of open issues to see if anything strikes your fancy and submit a merge request.

All contributions are welcome, no matter how obscure the technology!

How old is "how old?"

Sometimes it's difficult to determine the exact date a project was made publicly available. Sometimes there is a large gap between the public release and the "official" launch. If there is uncertainty over which date to pick when adding a technology, aim for the earlier of the two.

Other contributions ⚠️

If you're interested in making a contribution other than adding or correcting a technology, please open an issue for feedback before you start. Changes that add new tooling dependencies or maintenance overhead probably won't be accepted without good reason. Thanks & sorry.

Credits

• This project was originally bootstrapped with Create React App, but is now generated HTML with a little JS to work the dropdown.
• A big thanks to all of the contributors for massively expanding this beyond the tiny handful of technologies I had listed to begin with.
• Unreal Engine icon by iconscout on icons8.com

P.S. If you are a recruiter and you are reading this, obviously it is not you that we are poking fun at! Haha! Ha! Haa... please don't blacklist us from the industry.

howoldisit's Issues

technologies in wrong order

Some of the technologies are in the wrong order.
https://github.com/jsrn/howoldisit/blob/master/src/technologies.js#L82-L84
https://github.com/jsrn/howoldisit/blob/master/src/technologies.js#L17-L18

Should I create a PR?

Docker

March 13, 2013

Should each technology have a link to its website?

Or wikipedia page, for anything too old/obscure to have its own website?

Use production build of React?

The site is currently using the development build of React, should we not be using the production build?

Invalid date for Magento

the release date of Magento in the source code is 31st April 2008 which is not possible .

Abinitio is missing

Android

September 23, 2008

Fix position of header

Hi everyone!
Can I make a commit for fixing the position of the header even after scrolling?

User would be able to search from here too without going back up

Search Input looks very bad

I've already raised the PR #81 for this, open to updating it if anybody has other ideas.

Kotlin has been out since 2011

Dynamics NAV is missing

Objective-C

Created in 1984

Sort order

Now that the list is growing it may be nice to allow some sorting.
Maybe column based layout, so that sort order can be set by tech, date, ...
As well as keeping sort order when search is used.

Hyper-V

June 26, 2008

Release date for podman

I wanted to add an entry for podman, but I am not sure which first release date I should pick.

Since I couldn't find an official "first release date", I looked up the history in GitHub (https://github.com/containers/podman/network). (Use keystroke [Shift] + [Left] to get to the leftmost commit.)

The first commit dates back to April 5, 2015.
In the podman docs April, 2014 is mentioned as first date.

{ name: "Podman", released: new Date("2015-04-05"), link: "https://podman.io" },

Changes favicon

It's a point the consideration. 🦀

Selecting a datalist entry in Edge doesn't fire the change event.

Of course it doesn't.

Of course.

Age of Jenkins

Jenkins was a fork of Hudson which was started in 2005. A start date of 2011 seems deceptive as the community has been around much longer.

Java and JavaScript not sufficiently distinct

Perhaps the labels should be something like:

Java (not JavaScript!)
JavaScript (not Java!)

Django is missing

The python framework called Django is missing

Add Logo for each technology

I think the site will look better if we can add the logo beside/close to each technology mentioned.

Ada

February 1980

https://howoldisit.glitch.me/ times out

https://howoldisit.glitch.me/ times out, 504 Gateway Error

Website down

504 gateway :/

Zend Framework is missing - around for 12 years

Zend Framework 0.1.1 - 2006-03-03
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zend_Framework

Zend Framework 1 - 2007-06-30
https://framework.zend.com/downloads/archives

Zend Framework 2 - 2012-09-04
https://github.com/zendframework/zendframework/releases/tag/release-2.0.0

Zend Framework 3 - 2016-06-28
https://github.com/zendframework/zendframework/releases/tag/release-3.0.0

Json

Non-fluid search

When I write in the search input, it gets slow every time I type a word quickly.

.NET, C# are missing.

Bootstrap vs Bootstrap 4

v4 is quite recent, but Bootstrap as a toolkit has been around since 2011 :)

Add SSH

If you mention Telnet, you should also mention SSH. It's been around since 1995 (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell#Historical_development)

Aurelia is missing

aurelia.io is a frontend spa framework which is missing in the list. AFAIK the first alpha exist since 2015

'years' is pluralised regardless of the count

It ought to be 1 year and 9 years

sorry wrong clicked

Footer Hyperlink - UX improvement

I think that Twitter and Github in the footer should be a different color and/or underlined to differentiate them from the other text in the footer and indicate that they are clickable. If that sounds good to you I am happy to update. As right now it is hard to identify that they are clickable.

iOS age != Obj C and swift

Lack distinction of iOS development from Swift and objective C
As of 2019:

• Swift has been out for 5 years
• Objective C has been out for 35 years
  However iOS has been out for 12 years.

Add popular AWS services - e.g. S3, DynamoDB etc

Maybe just

EC2: 25 August 2006
S3: March 14, 2006
Lambda: November 2014
DynamoDB: January 2012
RDS: 22 October 2009
CloudFront: November 18, 2008

Rust has been out 8 years (since July 2010)

It's currently marked 3 years.

Classic “C” is missing

Created in 1972.

The tests are failing

Apparently the list of technologies is not sorted.
I'd like to make a PR to fix it.

Add links to website

I implemented link functionality. If somebody could jump in and add links(wiki page would do if there's no website) for rest of the technologies, that would be really great.

Bug in displaying .NET Framework & .NET Core release year

Release year for both .NET Framework & .NET Core is NaN years.

R, not displayed when typed

Different date format in technologies.js

Hi,
I would suggest to use a ISO8061 formatted date string in the technologies.js file instead of the call to Date() with year,month,day as parameters. This way we would circumvent the "month start at 0" problem and because we don't care about the actual time we avoid the problem of getting timestamps with 11pm of the day before due to UTC conversion.

// old way 
> new Date(2006,2,15)
Date 2006-03-14T23:00:00.000Z
// new way
> new Date("2006-03-15")
Date 2006-03-15T00:00:00.000Z

Best regards,
Felix