find ~ -print0 | xargs -0 stat -c '%y %n' | sort | less
And wait a bit. (Or longer. I have 583489 files.) And then tell something about your oldest files. Unfortunately some .tar are awefully broken and have mtime 0. Next up,
Wow, I didn’t know I had that. :) Other interesting stuff, not written by me:
1986-01-08 ~/projects/docs/rfcs/rfc971.txt.gz 1988-01-27 ~/src/its/klh10-2.0a/contrib/supdup/supdup.h 1988-02-05 ~/src/t3-repo/sources/comp/back_end/closure.t 1990-10-02 ~/Downloads/teco.doc 1991-01-10 ~/projects/docs/gz/mhbook/download/split/mh/old-edition2/babyl2mh 1992-04-06 ~/mess/2008/47/rc-1.7.1/match.c 1993-12-02 ~/projects/docs/tex/texbuch.tex 1994-06-03 ~/src/ruby-0.49/sample/math.rb 1995-05-26 ~/projects/docs/hakmem/pdp10/hbaker/pdp-10/Program.html
Now let’s find something I actually edited.
I guess that’s one of the earliest programs I ever wrote in C: “Add spaces at beginning of line.” I wonder why I wrote that.
A very naive implementation of a curses-like library.
Toying with elisp.
“gawk script for generating html files on file lists”
2001-06-07 ~/projects/perl/IO_sockets/chat/client.pl 2001-07-25 ~/projects/tex/zeugnis/z2001.tex
From my first homepage.
2001-10-29 ~/projects/ruby/rfmt.rb 2001-10-29 ~/projects/ruby/pig.rb 2001-12-30 ~/projects/ruby/symnum.rb
Early Ruby scripts.
I don’t think I for beyond parsing… ;)
Parts of my first blog.
2004-05-28 ~/projects/nukumi/+releases/nukumi-0.2.tar.gz 2004-06-11 ~/projects/Arch/2004-projects/nukumi/nukumi--devo/nukumi--devo--0/patch-22/log
First serious blog, you can see I used GNU Arch back then.
The rest is history! ;)
(I’m sure I’d have even older files on some backup images somewhere… Especially I’d like to find my first ever homepage.)