Twitter Nostalgia

Back in college I created a Twitter client for a GUI class I was taking at the time. This was in 2008 when I still had to explain to people what Twitter was. ​You can see the UI in the image above. For this project, I wanted to create a way to quickly move from timeline to timeline. It's hard to imagine without seeing it in motion. 

I wrote this in Java and, surprisingly, the JAR I built back in 2008 still runs today. However, the Twitter API has changed enough that login is broken. ​

Looking back at this project, it's interesting for me to see how little the core functionality of Twitter has changed in the past 4 years. I even remember hitting API rate limits while trying to demo this project. I also remember a sense of excitement about what Twitter, and its community, might evolve into.