What's the oldest piece of software you still actively use daily

[Ava_75]

I still run a text editor from the early two thousands for quick notes, the interface hasn't changed once, and honestly that's exactly why I keep coming back to it over anything newer

There's something genuinely satisfying about software that just works and never demands an update, a subscription, or a redesign nobody asked for

Curious what people's actual oldest daily driver looks like, not nostalgia pieces sitting unused, specifically stuff you genuinely open every single day still

[Frost Jay]

Notepad plus plus, must be pushing twenty years now for me, every attempt to switch to something fancier eventually just brings me back

[SortedMate]

An old version of Photoshop I refuse to upgrade past because the newer subscription model ruined the workflow I'd built over years

[ParallelSelf50]

WinRAR, still using the exact same license from probably fifteen years ago, ignoring the nag screen has become an actual ritual at this point

[Nina81]

An ancient copy of Excel that somehow still opens every single spreadsheet I throw at it faster than any modern alternative I've tried

[Coder46]

An old media player from probably 2008 that plays literally every file format without me ever installing a single codec pack

[LostReece55]

Putty for SSH connections, interface hasn't meaningfully changed in decades and I hope it never does

[FadedSequence]

I found windowsXP install disks the other day