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I am now Grandpa (I've grown to accept it).
All of my kids make more money than I do (a very good thing).
Superstorm Sandy (new PC's and refurbished laptops all around).
Flat screen TV
A couple of new meds because old folk like meds.
Learned to cook with full strength home made home grown habanero sauce.
Enlightenment.
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Finished my apprenticeship
Girlfriend came, girlfriend went
Now on my second job
Got promoted from junior to Software Engineer
Got a car
Got my drivers license
Became a CH Air Force Sergeant First Class
Became a volunteer firefighter, now trainee for the lake rescue group
Pay increased
Moved out from home
And some more things. List not in chronological order.
I only have a signature in order to let @DalekDave follow my posts.
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Luckily, Bob didn't forget . . . he wore his birthday suit for you!
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I came here seeking wisdom some 11+ years ago, found it to be an awesome resource and mostly just enjoyed the daily news for a few years before I discovered the Lounge. 
What's changed? Hmmm, the one thing that was a game changer for me was remote desktop/support over the internet and VOIP. These two things combined allowed my company to lose the overhead of an office thus forcing me to work from home.
Hardware is definitely better...my current rig sounds a lot like yours, minus the NAS, but I have one I built a few months ago waiting in the wings. I've been through at least 6 different development machines (not counting laptops) since I went back to school in '98, but I still use the HP keyboard that came with my first windows system some 20 years ago.
11 years ago I was still hanging on to Win2K which I used until Win7 came out in 2009. I absolutely loved Win7 and long considered it to be the very best and most stable OS to date. I'm on 10 everywhere now and have gotten used to it...with the exception of unwanted restarts! 
Carwise, I went from a '99 mazda 626 with the headliner coming down and no A/C to my very first new vehicle, a midsize Nissan p/u which has been paid off now for a couple of years. (a bonus to working from home: it's a 2010 with 26K miles!  )
Oh yeah, 5 years ago I finally married the chick I was dating 11 years ago!
I now have two iPads, both hand-me-downs from the wife. 1 is a glorified iPod used for nothing but music, and the other is only for testing a web app where the client chose iPad for their input devices.  (I've now had some that been active for over 3 weeks now without shutting down!)
Phones: I loved my flip phone...easy to carry, kept a charge for a week, but to keep up, I've been on WP for the last 8 years. My bank recently killed their support for it, do maybe I do have another use for that iPad! I also have a couple of android tablets needing to be charged. (only for testing)
One other thing that has changed over the last decade, is how difficult it has become to be anti-social not only due to fb/social media but a seemingly thoughtless reaction from most people to call/text whenever the mood strikes...nothing sucks worse than being neck deep in a nested query and getting it almost there when...the phone rings...an hour later after a usually uninformative chit-chat and I can finally get back to work...wait, a new text from my retired bil...so he's just washed his car.  OK, back to work...wait, an email that needs attention...must respond...half-hour later, what's happening in the lounge?...too late to get back into work!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: One other thing that has changed over the last decade, is how difficult it has become to be anti-social not only due to fb/social media but a seemingly thoughtless reaction from most people to call/text whenever the mood strikes...
&etc.
Let me give you two comments on this:
1 - the phones are anti-social behavior, diminishing real human contact, interactions, and all that stuff that makes something a social interaction.
2 - shut off the ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing phone! There is 100% no one to blame but you for allowing it to run your life.
So - five years from now, perhaps when repeating this exercise, you'll be able to say "five years ago is when I started to take my life back from cell phones and social media."
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Congrats, and have a (local) drink on me ![Java | [Coffee]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif) with some apple pie covered under a thick layer of custard 
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It was very quiet when I first joined. Then it became very, very noisy.
Sometimes I miss the quiet, but in general it's really nice having everyone around. Thanks for being one of them, 'Griff.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Pheeeeew... Been here for 7 years and 4 months.
At that time I just started programming.
I was a junior with no technical education starting out at minimum salary!
So fast forward seven years.
I'm a prize winning author on CP and outside of CP.
I'm a programmer at a pretty good company in the Netherlands, eight times Microsoft Gold Partner or something.
I got a little certified as well (C#, SQL Server, and Azure)!
Got job titles such as Lead Developer and Technology Expert, currently Sr. Software Engineer (somehow all of them were pretty much the same).
I'm also not at minimum salary anymore 
Furthermore, I started out at .NET 3.5 and since then I've used .NET 4, 4.5, 4.6.2, and Core 1.1 and 2.0.
I did my programming in Visual Studio 2008, but I moved to 2010, 2012, skipped 2013, 2015 and now 2017 and Visual Studio Code.
As for SQL Server, I started out at 2005 and 2008, then switched to 2012, but I'm currently using 2014.
Oh yeah, somewhere in the past seven years Git conquered the source control market, so I've switched from SVN to Git.
I'm also not doing WinForms development anymore, but web development with ASP.NET MVC and WebAPI and Entity Framework.
One of the most unexpected changes was perhaps Microsoft embracing open source and open sourcing .NET and supporting various other tools and platforms such as Node.js, npm, and task runners out of the box.
It's certainly been an exciting seven years (professionally and personally)!
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OriginalGriff wrote: have I really been here 9 years?
N00b.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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N00b.
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"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Hey Steve, the Missus goes in his morning (about 4 hours) to get the new hip.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Has Anyone Seen Mike Hunt wrote: Hey Steve
Not sure who Steve is  ... but give your bride my best wishes. Nothing to worry about.
I had great luck with both my hip replacement surgeries and the subsequent rehabs.
Early last week at PT (for the new knee) the therapists were trying to decide exactly why I had a hitch in my gait. They decided to test my hip strength. Both hips tested out at 9+ of 10 on their strength scale with zero pain during the tests.
BTW - The new knee is progressing well. Rehab is a bit slower than with the hips but I was back to work after only 3 weeks.
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Mike Mullikin wrote: Not sure who Steve is
Austin. You are getting old, it was only a couple of weeks ago we confused the elephant out of people here who think the 70's is archeological and people from that time couldn't possibly be still alive today.
Mike Mullikin wrote: Early last week at PT (for the new knee) the therapists were trying to decide exactly why I had a hitch in my gait.
You did explain that you were born in the 60's and that's just how we walked back then. Good to hear it is all progressing along nicely.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Has Anyone Seen Mike Hunt wrote: Austin. You are getting old...
 and senile apparently. My bad.
In my defense, that happened when I was only a week or two past surgery. I was probably strung out on Oxy... or drunk... or both.
How did the missus survive her hip replacement?
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Mike Mullikin wrote: How did the missus survive her hip replacement?
Weekend was mad. Getting MIL back and forth to hospital, doing weekly shopping and other things that just have to get done, daughter's soccer and trying to get to a couple of customers (picked up a few weeks work in the city which means everything else forced to the weekends) left me no time to scratch and not much time at the hospital.
Saturday early afternoonish (18 hours post-op) the Missus knocked the canular from her hand. This was providing pain relief drugs and fluids by drip. Blood pressure dropped to 74/42, panic ensued, Doctors everywhere and MIL on the phone carrying on like an idiot. Asked her where else she would lik her daughter be if something like this was to hapopena dn to shutup as it only hype the Misus and nurses up.
Got over there and it was up to 9X/60 and eventually hit 120/80 by 17:30. Screwed up any physio and put her back a bit, but yesterday (it's Monday here and already at work) she was up with a full height zimerframe thingy with wheels at the front. Think she is scheduled to come home Wednesday.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Quote: How about you - what's changed since you joined?
A lot, thank you very much!
Bruno
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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just gone past 9 years too, things that are different in a positive way for me:-
Got a decent camera on my phone - dont need an actual camera anymore
laptop has 4 times the ram 4 times the cores, double the storage AND its ssd and is a quarter the weight of the one I had in 2009
DD has gone (although his alter ego seems to be here)
I can watch videos of cats anytime anyplace...;)
Got Windows 10 on three systems, works fine, whats all the fuss?
Negative changes in the last 9 years:-
Too many to list...
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I've been here since Mr. Maunder started the site and sent out the invitational e-mail. I ended up with a three-digit member number. About the only other person I see who's been around that long is Ravi B. and his number precedes mine by one.
Since then, things have changed a LOT. I guess that is to be expected when you acquire 13M members along the way. Several technologies have been invented since then and are now the most prominent here while most of the popular stuff of those days has faded considerably.
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Rick York wrote: I've been here since Mr. Maunder started the site and sent out the invitational e-mail. I ended up with a three-digit member number. About the only other person I see who's been around that long is Ravi B. and his number precedes mine by one.
I was dealing with Maunder on that other site that existed before CP, can't remember it's name nor did Google help me. I got rorted into a 4 digit member number when Maunder decided to delete the member database and pick stuff at random.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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The other site was codeguru.com[^]. It still exists but seems to be less active than this one is. I still have a couple of articles there that I never got around to posting here.
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Rick York wrote: The other site was codeguru.com[^]. It still exists but seems to be less active than this one is. I still have a couple of articles there that I never got around to posting here.
All I could remember was it was code followed by 4 letters which I couldn't get close too. From memory the bcreator sold it from > $10,000,000 and it became all about advertisements and selling services.
Will now wander off and have a quick look at it.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Pretty sure I have been here since 2006! 
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Wow,
just had a look myself... I've been here over 16 years 
I was doing 95 /98 / Win2K in VB 5/6 when I first started... I've been more of a stalker the last decade or so 
What's changed...?
Consume, Consume, Consume...
bigger, better (?) faster higher... but do we really need it
What's not changed
Thankfully the same friendly atmosphere is still present today as it was all those years ago..
Who the f*** is General Failure, and why is he reading my harddisk?
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In [nearly] 11 years? Loads. 4 different jobs, moved about 8 times, and bought 2 houses and 4 cars. Only on my 3rd laptop and 5th phone.
veni bibi saltavi
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