The oldest file on your computer

[Mr-Fusion]

VIEWTIP.TXT 25/01/1996.

Tips on jedi knight!

What's your oldest file.

 

[kirovman]

Bomb2.raw 09/11/1990

A file from the old game, Tank Wars.

My computer is not as old as that file. :|

 

[15357]

dump.py

1992-01-08

Have no idea what it is.

 

[The Brick]

INSTALL.EXE 29/9/1987 15:07

It's from a game called supaplex.

 

[Dalamari]

xerox folder, it's empty, but it was the install folder to a printer I never had

Wednesday, January 09, 2002, 12:15:49 AM

 

[ríomhaire]

No idea, is there a way to check?

 

[nutcrackr]

morefloats.sty (latex file)

9th August 1991

 

[15357]

No idea, is there a way to check?

Use the search and set date to 1970 ~ 1995.

 

[Dalamari]

Just ran the search, so far the oldest is 1999

*edit*

The oldest after searching is 4/20/1999 8:33PM, a folder named "com" in a javascript directory

 

[Harryz]

dump.py

1992-01-08

Have no idea what it is.

Thats my third oldest file.

My first is "util.py" dating back to 21/04/1991. I got my comp in 2004.

 

[Nih]

Oldest file is FILE013.dat from 1980. An old game called Sink Or Die.
Second oldest is from norton antivirus, apparently from 1988.

 

[CrazyHarij]

lots of old .mod music files from the amiga era, ranging from 1988 to 1993, and they actually have those years as "last edited"

 

[Vegeta897]

pwf001.ico
July 12th, 1990

File in some software folder I have from my work.

 

[oldagerocker]

The search just crashed my computer.

 

[kirovman]

The search just crashed my computer.

Prehistoric files will do that.

I've got one from 5000 BC that reduced my computer to a crawl.

 

[AKIRA]

Bomb2.raw 09/11/1990

A file from the old game, Tank Wars.

My computer is not as old as that file. :|

OMG tank wars...we used to have huuuge tournaments with that game when i was like 6 lol

 

[Beerdude26]

Dammit this makes me want to build a Source version of Albion

 

[Parrot of doom]

Hmmm, something called Auto.bat in a temp folder, dated 1990


ECHO OFF
CLS
AUTOMENU %1
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO QUIT
AUTOTEMP
:QUIT
ECHO .
ECHO ERROR DETECTED, CHECK THE SECTION OF YOUR MANUAL ON ERROR MESSAGES
ECHO ABNORMAL TERMINATION OF AUTOMENU


 

[Majestic XII]

pink-chip-technics.mod - 1980-01-06

The search won't go under 1980

 

[ríomhaire]

Msvcrt10.dll
22/07/1993 23:00
Part of Adobe Photoshop 6

 

[dfc05]

Autoexec.bat
1/7/1985
From an old DOS game called Hacker. The game's not really that fun and I don't know why I still have it.

 

[giant384]

wow lol some of you guys like havent formatted at all.

 

[Stigmata]

BLANK.SYN
18/12/1994

It's a synthesizer file for FruityLoops. Haven't touched the program in months.

 

[Shippi]

.

 

[Krynn72]

ctccw.dll 1994

I just formated my drives last month.

 

[Geogaddi]

ASHLEY__.ttf
Font file dated
8/18/1991

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

Just ran the search, so far the oldest is 1999

*edit*

The oldest after searching is 4/20/1999 8:33PM, a folder named "com" in a javascript directory

Same here. My oldest actual file is a Chrono Trigger rom. 10/16/1999 12:05 pm.