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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by 0points on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @06:01AM (#44308360)
> COBOL

Was popular in the 60s in fintech, so banks, ATM:s and related systems went digital using it.

Those systems are still running.

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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by graealex on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @09:27AM (#44309708)
Although you can do a bit of Ship-of-Theseus philosophy on those COBOL systems. After every software component has been rewritten multiple times and every hardware has died and subsequently got replaced, all that's left is the decision to stick with COBOL, not the fact that it's a legacy system built in the 60s.
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