Niels Horn's Blog

The internet is an amazing thing. Sometimes we forget too fast how things used to be before the internet. Yeah, I know, I’m getting old… I started working with computers when there was no such thing as the internet.

Today I was ‘Googling’ and by coincidence found a page talking about some software I wrote several years ago. It’s a simple Hex-editor for Windows written in C, based on much older versions, dating back from the days of CP/M. If you have no idea what CP/M is, you’re probably a bit younger than I am

This version I found today on the internet dates from 2003 / 2004. I published it at the time for free download (I always believed in free software) on my website. I never promoted it too much, but some people managed to find it and at the time I received quite some feedback.

After finding that page, I did a Google search on this Hex Editor and found pages from all over the world mentioning my software Never had any idea my little program has been used in places like Poland, China, etc…

That’s the internet: no more distances and complete anonymity.

This entry was posted on Sunday, September 28th, 2008 at 23:38 and is filed under Free Software, Random Thoughts, internet. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.