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Comment by thought_alarm | Hacker News Reader

Things from 30 years ago:

    mdfind 'kMDItemContentCreationDate < $time.iso(1994-06-23)' > out.txt

Highlights include:

* Castle Wolfenstien for MS-DOS (1983-6-29)

* Lisa OS Source Code (1983-6-29)

* Classic Mac Disks from the Boston Computer Society (1984-12-24)

* Atari 7800 Ms. Pac Man Source Code (1988-12-24)

* Pyroto Mountian BBS files (1990-10-5)

* Jumpman Lives Source Code (1991-04-13)

* Delightful AU sound files and TIFF images from Sun and NeXT systems (1992-2-29)

* Tim Berners-Lee's WWW Browser Source Code for NeXT (1993-6-21)

* C64 Disk Images (1994-6-17)

i have a bunch of NeXT stuff on my backups somewhere, but the oldest files with a legitimate timestamp are from a backup of the G.R.E.A.T. Desktop environment from 1995.

from the README:

                    G.R.E.A.T Version 0.92
    
      GREAT is the Graphical Environment and Desktop for UNIX.
    It is developed by the Free Software Assiociation of Germany
                  with Ruediger and Michaela Merz.
                GREAT is a free binary distribution.
                Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1995 FSAG

this is interesting, because it appears to be the first FOSS Desktop Environment. i used it on my grandmothers computer. unfortunately the sources appear to be lost. i was only able to find this binary release, and because of its historical value i am holding on to it for dear life.

That's awesome. Out of curiosity, what kind of system are those files living on today?

`mdfind` is the terminal command to access spotlight indexed files, so a Mac of some kind.

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