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You know you are old when..................................
By hurt_FOR_heart, history, 9 months ago, In English

I have been on codeforces for almost 5 years, i just take a break from cp for 1 year and i have seen a lot of changes in our community. Now i just want to recall and save some good old memories from everyone. Feel free to share your memories.

OK, me first.

You know you are old when you have seen purple vovuh single handled div 3 rounds

You know you are old when you have seen awoo was once pikmike

You know you are old when you have seen the retired blog of rng_58

You know you are old when you have seen red SecondThread provide useful solution

You know you are old when you have seen Wind_Eagle trolling cheater

And you are elderly people if you have participated in a contest and there's no cheaters.

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You know you're old when you remember Errichto being first in top contributors...

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    ah yes i still remember his streaming section and very nice matrix multiplication set in gym

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you know you are old when you have seen sus to take over the world

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You know you are old if you have participated in SRMs back when rng_58 was TC admin (press F).

You know you are old if you remember times when all CF rounds were curated by a single coordinator.

You know you are old if you have participated in Marathon24/Deadline24/Challenge24/Pizza contest (press F).

You know you are old if you remember CF toppers without black first letter in the nickname.

You know you are old if you have seen tomek or bmerry competing (press F).

You know you are old if you have participated in GCJ back when R2 advancement cut-off was 1K from every R1 round, not 1.5K.

You know you are old if you remember Petr being CF top1 (press F).

I can continue for a long time...

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You know you are old when you have seen Petr participating in contests using Java

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And you are elderly people if you have seen Experts participating officially in Div. 1 contests.

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    bro your acc is 10 months old

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You know you are old when you see people you know retire. F.

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You know you're old when you remember tourist stream in youtube .

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  • I have been on codeforces for almost 5 years, ...

"Registered 3 years ago" :lying_face:

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You know you are old when you remember adamant being first in top contributors at 19 August 2023

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You know you are old when you remember the subtitle of Codeforces was 'sponsored by Telegram'.

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You know you are old if you remember shitposting in CWD.

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You know you are old when you have participated in Codeforces Round 284 (Div. 2), where sorry_dreamoon beat dreamoon.

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    You know you are old when you last created an alt account many years ago...

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    You know you are old when you log on to Codeforces for the first time in 8 months because you saw a post on Facebook

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when you don't see yourself in top contributors list anymore

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My last contest is when I was in high school... Currently a master's student

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    So how does it feel to take a quick trip back to high school ?

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      I'd say I'm quite impressed with myself during that time. Managing to tackle div. 2 ABCD and reaching the blue, all without the guidance of any formal algorithmic classes, was quite an accomplishment. Over the last 4 years, I oftentimes solve random problems purely for enjoyment, without actively participating in any formal contests. And I'm now genuinely curious how far could I go if I come back to CP at this point in time.

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Ever heard of these?
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You know you are old when you remember Codeforces being actually good

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you are old when you saw only 1 test case in a test case

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i know i am old when my first round had happened 4 years ago Codeforces Round 581 (Div. 2)

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You know you are old when you see there is no more LanceTheDragonTrainer comments.

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You know you are old when you remember dushenkov crying everywhere in this blog https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/102805

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You know you're old when Jiangly didn't change his profile photo to his girlfriend.

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You know you are old when your first Codeforces round was VK Cup 2012 Квалификационный раунд 2 more than 13 years ago

You know you are old when you remember DmitriyH's stat by rounds

You know you are old when you remember You know you are a programming competitions addict blog which was 9 years ago

You know you are old when you won Topcoder div 2 round 652

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You know you are old when you remember the fixed seed incident in Aim Tech round 4.

You know you are old when you remember some guy from Bratsk sharing an observation about negative impact of active participation in contests on the ability to solve problems and also his ice bucket challenge video.

You know you are old when you remember the blackout that erased about a month of codeforces data.

You know you are old when you remember a similar post about addiction to competitive programming, like "you know you are an addict if" or something.

You know you are old when you remember Mike posting blogs in russian about Saratov team going to some olympiads.

You know you are old when some of your comments have a smaller gap between lines, and also don't draw the ">>" when you hover over them.

You know you are old when you think for a long time if you should participate in a contest, finally deciding to participate, but not very seriously, probably you will leave early if you get tired. Most importantly, you must not forget to take a pill closer to the end of the round, because it needs to be taken 30 minutes before meal.

You know you are old when you choose your sleeping position carefully, because otherwise your spine will hurt for the next two days.

You know you are old when you read all these blogs about how Twice increases productivity, smile softly and add Cambio Dolor by Natalia Oreiro to your winamp queue.

You know you are old when you find yourself having thought of something interesting, try a little to remember what is was, then decide that it must have been not so interesting then.

You know you are old when you smile seeing your grandkids thinking you must be tricking them when you fall asleep in your chair after lunch, because you used to think the same about your granddad.

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You are that old when you remember W4yneb0t was ranked top-2

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Wow you guys are young :-)

You know you are old when you watched Petr rise to the top of the rankings.

You know you are old when these was no Google Code Jam because there was no Google.

You know you are old when you remember Topcoder paying prize money for every SRM.

You know you are old when you remember contests moving from 16-bit compilers to 32-bit.

You know you are old when you had to write your own sort function, because Turbo Pascal didn't provide one.

You know you are old when you submitted solutions on a floppy disk.

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    seem like i have found the eldest coder of this comment section, lemme guess your age, 40 ?

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    You know you are old when you had to write your own sort function, because Turbo Pascal didn't provide one.

    Rough times... Was it quicksort for you or something else?

    P.S. Glad to still see you there!

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    I know you are old because you are only 3 or 4 years younger than Einstein.

    I know you are old because you are old

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you know you are old when you have witnessed TheBhediyaOfDalalStreet writing bigoted blogs in garbage English and being a TCS Bhediya instead of a GRE Bhediya

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You know you're old if you remember I_love_Tanya_Romanova

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