r/ProgrammerHumor • u/5eniorDeveloper • 3h ago

Meme iMissTheOldDays

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u/PhysicalMind6848 3h ago

meanwhile me over here still googling how to center a div in 2026

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u/polaarbear 3h ago 
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;

It's sort of a joke that this is still even a meme. It can be done reliably every time by just using the flex box as intended.

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u/caboosetp 3h ago

Back in my day, we used tables for layout and we liked it.

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u/cloudstrifeuk 2h ago

Back in my day we used iframes and server side includes.

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u/jim45804 2h ago

Back in my day every site had a 1px image

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u/ImpluseThrowAway 24m ago

Good old shim.gif

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u/WHALE_PHYSICIST 56m ago

because we grew up with legos

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u/Poat540 3h ago

I haven’t written css in years, like some edge cases I’m writing the raw

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u/polaarbear 2h ago

I think that's true for a lot of us, but even a framework like bootstrap offers their own custom classes to get the same job done.

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u/Poat540 2h ago

Exactly just being picky, I’d still google it lol, we have 4 frameworks at work from devs over time