# Why can't we run software that was written 25 years ago?

<http://scripting.com/2015/09/13/whyCantWeRunSoftwareThatWasWritten25YearsAgo.html>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

I would like to write software that people can run 100 years from now. Clearly that's not going to happen. Ward Cunningham tells a story about how he wrote Hypercard apps for his kids as bedtime…

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