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Re:Ask HN: What's the Oldest App You Still Use Daily by benoau on Saturday April 12, 2025 @05:26PM (#43668074)
Assuming you mean phone, I think every app I use is more than 10 years old. The app ecosystem has not been worth exploring in many years for me.

I bet most of the app installs these days are just kids tapping misleading ads they see in bad games.

Re:Ask HN: What's the Oldest App You Still Use Daily by mycroft_4221 on Saturday April 12, 2025 @05:06PM (#43667941)
Total Commander - https://www.ghisler.com/

Swiss army knife for file/SFTP/… operations on Windows

Re:Ask HN: What's the Oldest App You Still Use Daily by tifkap on Sunday April 13, 2025 @02:29PM (#43674797)
On windows it is still my go-to filemanager (although double commander does the same)
Re:Ask HN: What's the Oldest App You Still Use Daily by sema4hacker on Saturday April 12, 2025 @05:18PM (#43668016)
Excel and Word from Office 97.
Re:Ask HN: What's the Oldest App You Still Use Daily by codingdave on Saturday April 12, 2025 @04:44PM (#43667803)
cmd.exe came out in '82, so it is 7 years ahead of bash which was '89, so I think it wins.
Re:Ask HN: What's the Oldest App You Still Use Daily by schappim on Saturday April 12, 2025 @04:43PM (#43667799)
For me it is an old version of FlyingLogic before they went subscription only.
Re:Ask HN: What's the Oldest App You Still Use Daily by j4nek on Saturday April 12, 2025 @06:53PM (#43668561)
my mail user agent says: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
Re:Ask HN: What's the Oldest App You Still Use Daily by Uzmanali on Saturday April 12, 2025 @05:46PM (#43668163)
WinSCP and IrfanView.
Re:Ask HN: What's the Oldest App You Still Use Daily by api on Saturday April 12, 2025 @05:52PM (#43668201)
The obvious answer is CLI stuff like bash, grep, sed, xargs, tar, etc. The shell suite found on Linux and macOS systems can contain code dating back to the 1980s. There’s some really ancient code in there. No need to change it.

For UI apps there’s not much I use that’s that old.

Re:Ask HN: What's the Oldest App You Still Use Daily by k310 on Saturday April 12, 2025 @09:00PM (#43669170)
Trunk Notes on iOS. It even runs on mac since Apple Silicon.

Some may be older. Ones I actually port to new machines and use are the perl "ren" script and the rdb relational database (perl) by Hobbs.

Source:

https://github.com/ironsmith58/RDB/tree/master

Article:

https://seann.herdejurgen.com/samag.com/html/v11/i01/a6.htm

Docs as pdf:

https://casegroup.rutgers.edu/lnotes/ccb550/spring20/RDB.pdf

Re:Ask HN: What's the Oldest App You Still Use Daily by solardev on Sunday April 13, 2025 @12:45PM (#43674069)
Gmail is pretty ancient now. Webstorm too.
Re:Ask HN: What's the Oldest App You Still Use Daily by tifkap on Sunday April 13, 2025 @02:27PM (#43674784)
vi(m), sc (the spreatsheet), awk, Perl (for quick oneliners), mutt, grep, tcpdump