• calloatti (unregistered)

    The last comment you will ever need!

  • The Last One (unregistered)

    Hey, I was one of the lucky tech support people expected to deliver on "The Last One's" promises. Nice old lady, assistant to the big boss, called me up to The Office one day. "We bought this program, now can you make it work? We want it to do word processing, spreadsheet, database, communications, printing, budgets, payroll, asset tracking..."

    I had some fast thinking and 'splainin to do, but eventually she understood that they had been conned.

    (Any "Last One" lawyers out there reading this, go ahead and sue me. It would be worth it to get the chance to at last meet a representative of the company and punch you in the face.)

    CAPTCHA: vindico - seems appropriate

  • m0ffx (unregistered)

    I shudder to think what the BASIC produced by The Last One would have looked like.

    As for LanLINK - seems like an ancestor of the hated Winmodem.

  • The Sussman (unregistered)

    TRWTF: I don't see any picture, personally.

  • Me, myself and I (unregistered)

    Not funny, bring back MFD!

  • NeoMojo (unregistered) in reply to The Sussman
    The Sussman:
    TRWTF: I don't see any picture, personally.
    Try looking impersonally.
  • (cs)

    Everybody run to Mexico, its the end of programming as we know it!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

  • (cs) in reply to The Sussman
    The Sussman:
    TRWTF: I don't see any picture, personally.
    Maybe you broke the network and the pictures didn't make it to your terminal? Personally!
  • (cs)

    And the beat goes on (yes, the beat goes on)

    Apple: "don't believe our ad"

  • (cs) in reply to The Sussman

    TRWTF is that AdBlock blocks these.

    @@|https://thedailywtf.com/images/ads/*
  • The Internets (unregistered)

    According to Programmers Heaven, Mystic Pascal was released in January 1st, 1900. Truly mystic.

  • (cs) in reply to MiffTheFox
    MiffTheFox:
    TRWTF is that AdBlock blocks these. 
    @@|https://thedailywtf.com/images/ads/*

    It's a scam by Alex to try and get us to remove this AdBlock rule.

    VERY annoying.

  • Cpt (unregistered) in reply to MiffTheFox
    MiffTheFox:
    TRWTF is that AdBlock blocks these. 
    @@|https://thedailywtf.com/images/ads/*
    Nope, those are not blocked on my Firefox, and I don't have any pictures either...
  • Marbo (unregistered) in reply to Cpt
    Cpt:
    MiffTheFox:
    TRWTF is that AdBlock blocks these. 
    @@|https://thedailywtf.com/images/ads/*
    Nope, those are not blocked on my Firefox, and I don't have any pictures either...

    Nope, thats a whitelist filter for adblock - add that to your filter list and the pictures will magically appear from the interwebs. or something.

  • some coder (unregistered) in reply to Phill
    Phill:
    MiffTheFox:
    TRWTF is that AdBlock blocks these. 
    @@|https://thedailywtf.com/images/ads/*

    It's a scam by Alex to try and get us to remove this AdBlock rule.

    VERY annoying.

    Personally, I think he's thinking like a hacker. Brillant!

  • Warr (unregistered)

    Uh, 73 or more users??

  • Alistair (unregistered)

    Despite TheLastOne being all you'd ever need, they did actually publish a successor a few years on.

    A couple of articles on the original here: http://www.tebbo.com/presshere/html/wf8104.htm and here http://teblog.typepad.com/david_tebbutt/2007/07/the-last-one-pe.html

    Hope those links work

  • anonym (unregistered)

    can't see the picture, a filter here is blocking them ;-(

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    Wow, this was a truly fantastic article. Old computer adverts are always quite amusing but old computer adverts that dramatically oversell their products are just hysterical. However, as others have noted, I'm pretty sure this is a continued effort to get visitors of the site to stop using AdBlock. This assumption is pretty much confirmed by the fact that the latest advertising article references images from a directory that is not blocked by AdBlock. Yet this article puts all the images in a directory that is blocked by AdBlock, even though these are not actually sponsored adverts. I'm pretty sure that was no accident. Still, you can't blame the fine folks at TDWTF for trying to claim back some of the costs of running this site for us. Thanks guys.

  • 300baud (unregistered)

    "Can a computer make you cry?"

    http://chrishecker.com/Can_a_Computer_Make_You_Cry%3F

    Hard to believe I used to think EA was the bee's knees.

  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Still, you can't blame the fine folks at TDWTF for trying to claim back some of the costs of running this site for us. Thanks guys.
    You know, if ALL of us kicked in just one dollar, Alex woudn't need to run ads at all.

    I'm willing; anyone else?

  • Jurgen (unregistered)

    Doesn't seem to have to do anything with yer'all plug-ins. Try IE Tab and the pics magically appear so it probably is a server-side thing (howzat for strange reasoning..?)

  • Anon (unregistered)

    If there was such a thing as a Nobel prize for computer science, the makers of The Last One would clearly win it.

  • Vic Tim (unregistered) in reply to Jurgen
    Jurgen:
    Doesn't seem to have to do anything with yer'all plug-ins. Try IE Tab and the pics magically appear so it probably is a server-side thing (howzat for strange reasoning..?)

    -sigh- Those plugins are not system-wide plugins like Flash and Java, but extensions for Firefox. IE Tab can't use them because it basically turns FF into a frontend, a frame for webpages rendered by IE's engine, for convenience... so all the security, both real and imagined, vanishes-- along with AdBlock filtering.

    Back on topic, Firefox isn't everything it claims, either... But I'm too lazy to try Opera and learn to like it. And IE is strictly for Flash on sites that use javashit in such a way that FF chokes... like adult swim's video player. I don't know what the image in question is saying about what aside from other comments, but as far as browsers go, FF will probably be THE LAST ONE I'll ever use.

  • Matt.C (unregistered) in reply to Alistair
    Alistair:
    Despite *The*Last*One* being all you'd ever need, they did actually publish a successor a few years on.

    A couple of articles on the original here: http://www.tebbo.com/presshere/html/wf8104.htm and here http://teblog.typepad.com/david_tebbutt/2007/07/the-last-one-pe.html

    Hope those links work

    Fascinating stuff. Thank you. :D

  • KrakenBlob (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    If there was such a thing as a Nobel prize for computer science, the makers of The Last One would clearly win it.

    There is something close to it, it's called the Turing award.

  • Hugh Jeffner (unregistered)

    Checked Disable on this page only F5 <reads article> Unchecked Disable on this page only

  • IT Girl (unregistered) in reply to snoofle
    snoofle:
    Anonymous:
    Still, you can't blame the fine folks at TDWTF for trying to claim back some of the costs of running this site for us. Thanks guys.
    You know, if ALL of us kicked in just one dollar, Alex woudn't need to run ads at all.

    I'm willing; anyone else?

    Not unless you're willing to snail mail it. If I had to register to view this site, I would stop reading it. I prefer Alex's ad sponsorship to keep his site "free" for the rest of us.

  • Peter V (unregistered)

    I can't see the pictures.

  • Jo Bob (unregistered)

    https://thedailywtf.com/images/ads/Mystic-In-Vista.png

    Ok, the image shows that Mystic ran in Vista, but did it actually compile a working executable?

    CAPTCHA: genitus - A genius who was interrupted for tea?

  • Old Coder (unregistered)

    WTF? I'm using Firefox (2.0.0.18); I see the pretty pix; and I don't see any ads as I have Noscript and Adblock plus running. What's the problem?

  • Jippen (unregistered) in reply to The Sussman

    Turn off adblock

  • (cs) in reply to Jo Bob
    Jo Bob:

    Ok, the image shows that Mystic ran in Vista, but did it actually compile a working executable?

    Nope - the version I found was v1.5 Being able to turn it into an exe comes in v1.6 according to the included notes. However, I think you get an object that would be linked to an exe.

  • (cs)

    I'm disappointed that after more than 30 comments, nobody's pointed out that the endorsement for Solution Systems' Lisp interpreter came from, "W.L. Whipple."

    (though I guess a lot of people probably can't see it...)

  • Hz (unregistered)

    "Mystic Pascal"

    Yeah, Pascal can feel like that sometimes. Still I would not like to use a compiler or a language which relies on mysticism... Or maybe they sell candles and goat blood too?

  • (cs)

    When I read about white beareded gurus on a mountain top writing Lisp, I thought of this guy.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to IT Girl
    snoofle:
    Anonymous:
    Still, you can't blame the fine folks at TDWTF for trying to claim back some of the costs of running this site for us. Thanks guys.
    You know, if ALL of us kicked in just one dollar, Alex woudn't need to run ads at all.

    I'm willing; anyone else?

    Yep, I'm in.
    IT Girl:
    Not unless you're willing to snail mail it. If I had to register to view this site, I would stop reading it. I prefer Alex's ad sponsorship to keep his site "free" for the rest of us.
    Offering up a dollar to Alex and co does not infer that the site would become registration only - sticking a "Donate via Paypal" button on the site does not automatically render it members-only.
  • (cs) in reply to Phill
    Phill:
    MiffTheFox:
    TRWTF is that AdBlock blocks these. 
    @@|https://thedailywtf.com/images/ads/*

    It's a scam by Alex to try and get us to remove this AdBlock rule.

    VERY annoying.

    I can see it now...

    Alex is sitting in a dark basement room, steepling his fingers and thinking to himself...

    "I'll MAKE them see those tiny, unobtrusive advertisements! Yeahsss...then, I'll become a millionaire while they sit in front of their computer, sobbing about the massive inconvenience of switching off their ad-blocking software for a few minutes...and they'll have no choice...for they'll be the outcasts of the IT world if they do not view the DailyWTF! Outcasts, I tell you! Mwuahahahaa!"

    If only Alex lived in the same world where all of those who are whining do. Apparently, web space is free there...oh, and the key to turn off an ad-blocker is guarded by a panther, behind several electrified barbed wire fences interlaced with poison oak.

  • (cs) in reply to calloatti

    This comment posts comments by asking you for your comments in plain english. This is the last comment you'll ever need post.

  • Chutney (unregistered) in reply to Voodoo Coder

    Right, I still can't see the pics. As I did when we had this a couple of weeks ago with the old computer ads, I have checked all my settings which are not blocking anything other than stuff they should be blocking (popups for instance). As far as I can see, I don't have ad blocker installed, using firefox 3.0.4. Doesn't work in ie7 either, so I'm stumped. Maybe its something my ISP is doing?

    Just put the pics in a folder without 'ads' in it then we can all see them. I have no objections to ads on the web site so long as they are relevant (and they usually are).

    Please.

    <rant over>
  • Dave (unregistered)

    Yeesh, you are all a bunch of whiners. It's not some secret plot to force you to click banner ads, these really are old computer advertisements, so it makes sense to put them in a folder called 'ads'. Learn how to configure your filters, or stfu.

  • Asiago Chow (unregistered)

    Another "no adblock; can't see them" here. I can see real ads on this site, eg slickedit, but I can't see these pictures.

    Maybe someone upstream thinks they are doing me a solid.

  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    - sticking a "Donate via Paypal" button on the site does not automatically render it members-only.
    Good idea. I would be a lot more likely to arbitrarily send Alex a dollar via Paypal than I am to click on an ad on the site. The ads don't interest me; the site does, and a dollar freely given now and then would add up, over a year's time, to about what I pay for one latte.
  • Scott (unregistered)

    I want a return of mandatory fun day!

  • (cs)
    The Last One:
    The Last One(r) uses those answers to generate a totally bug-free program in BASIC, ready to put to immediate use
    Dead Easy:

    On Error Resume Next

    Done!

  • Ozz (unregistered) in reply to Alistair
    Alistair:
    Despite *The*Last*One* being all you'd ever need, they did actually publish a successor a few years on.

    A couple of articles on the original here: http://www.tebbo.com/presshere/html/wf8104.htm and here http://teblog.typepad.com/david_tebbutt/2007/07/the-last-one-pe.html

    Hope those links work

    Should that second link be: http://teblog.typepad.com/david_tebass/2007/07/the-last-one-pe.html

    (http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Clbuttic-Mistake-.aspx)

  • bene (unregistered)

    I wonder why noone said this yet, but I only seen text. Show me the images, SHOW ME THE IMAGES!!

  • (cs)

    My father is a journalist. He once told me that programmers were obsolescent as in a few decades, computers would program themselves. I replied that by the time this happened, computers would also write news articles. He thought about this for a moment and answered that he didn't believe that. Writing news articles was waaaay too complex!

  • The Last One (unregistered)

    http://www.tebbo.com/presshere/html/pw8102.htm

  • The Last One (unregistered)

    http://www.tloconsultants.com/tloutil.htm

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