i think i am old. i grew up using DOS, and really hated spaces in filenames and folders because they appreared truncated at the first space with a tilde and index of that file/folder representation.

ex: C:\folder name is bad\ == C:\folder~1

i hated that so much that when i got to windows 3.1 i refrained from using spaces (some command line was still necessary in w3.1)

i have jept that habit through the years, so when i moved from windoes to linux, my natural instincts of snake_case_folder_names made it so i didnt have to change : D

[–] aaaaaaaaargh@feddit.org 10 points 3 days ago

That's not even DOS I think. As far as I know Win 95 came up with this monstrosity in an attempt to circumvent the 8.3 character limitations present in older versions of DOS.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago

One of the fun things about modern Windows is that ~1 shit still appears every once in a rare while. Gotta love just stacking more and more shit on top of ancient systems in the name of backwards compatibility!

[–] db2@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

I think you're misremembering a little. Long filenames was introduced in Win95.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yea, Win 3.1 didn't support long names - that came with Win95. Win 3.1 was a shell on DOS.

But I understand - it all blends together after um... 40 years (ouch!).

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

i think i am old

https://youtube.com/watch?v=UzqcNlhaqIY