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I remember chatting with Scott on ICQ when he was building the site at the very beginning. He sent me a link to test uploading something, which I did - a screenshot of my desktop. It's one of if not the oldest remaining submissions, and was the first 'daily deviation' (for lack of other content, I'm sure!).

Lots of great people around communities like this back in the day, but then so many of us seemed to grow out of them.




Oh c'mon, you have to link to a piece of internet history like that!


To save you the quick google search, this is it: http://dangeruss.deviantart.com/art/A-Dangeruss-QNX-12

It is the oldest submission not performed by deviant art staff and the oldest submission still online.


Awww, QNX! I remember booting that from floppy disk, must have been '97 or early '98... (I wonder if there's an ARM SoC version of it? I'm guessing I must have been running that on a Pentium grade machine - a Raspberry Pi or NextThing CHIP is _way_ more powerful...)


It is only pretending to be QNX, it's really Windows...

Here's the (genuine) QNX boot floppy demo, BTW. Alas, my new laptop doesn't have enough RAM to run it.

http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html


It was this one: http://pressf8.deviantart.com/art/bSCATES-Desktop-2-1-19

I think there's one that's older by url count, but this was the first featured one, and I think second oldest surviving.




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