>>108709291
nice
I wrote stuff back in the day but I wasn’t diligent
I ran this:
set DROPBOX "$HOME/Dropbox"
test -d "$DROPBOX"; or set DROPBOX "$HOME/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox"
fd -u . "$DROPBOX" -t f -X stat -f '%B %N' \
| awk '$1 > 0' \
| sort -n \
| head -20 \
| while read -l line
set parts (string split -m 1 ' ' -- $line)
set ts $parts[1]
set path $parts[2]
printf '%s\t%s\n' (date -r "$ts" '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z') "$path"
end
this sorts by birth time — remove the `head -20` part to show everything
the oldest files are Scorched Earth installers from 1995
second oldest are Windows ’95 wallpaper from 1996
my Bookshelf Basics files date back from 2003 — I guess that’s when I last copied them from the CD
oldest files that I actually wrote are some SVG art things from 2003
I also have some iChat transcripts from 2009 with a birthtime of 2023, so I guess Time Machine or whatever it is I’m loading stuff from isn’t all that great about preserving times
