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Good question!  I've been at this 20 years and have a few unpopular apps:
0: VB6 (I still maintain quite a few legacy applications that I started over 20 years ago)
1: MS Access (lite versions of our software still use Jet 4.0)
2: MS Photo Editor
3: Many of my own utility apps that I use every day have roots back to the early days
While I'll certainly get thrashed for still using VB6 and Access, let me just say that I can't even begin to calculate the ROI I've gotten on the $180 VS6 suite I bought at uni back in '98! There are plans to migrate it all in the next year or so when my business partner and I can reach an agreement on the target environment. I'm pushing for desktop, she is insisting on web...so probably doing web. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Me too. Still using VB6 and supporting legacy apps.
Started with VB1.0 and went through all of the versions up to VB6.
The ROI IS truly incredible.
Converting to C#. While I heard others in this forum talk about how "Verbose" VB6 is compared to C#, I could not disagree more.
In the end however, it is all just syntax. I believe it is the "B" (for Basic) in the name that causes the academics, and academic taught programmers ("developers" according to them) to hate VB6.
Finally, I need to point out that Bill Gates and Microsoft's first product wad GW-Basic. And I started out on Apple Basic.
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Slow Eddie wrote: In the end however, it is all just syntax
 My thoughts exactly!
I think you are mostly correct about the contempt 'real programmers' have for VB of any flavor. Haters will hate...I will laugh all the way to the bank! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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NotePad is still going strong.
Brent
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I think there's only one application I've used on a daily basis for about twenty years now... Winamp! 
It still kicks (llama's) ass
I'm still on v5.666 though (you think that version is a coincidence?), didn't recently bother to upgrade to the new "leaked" 5.8.
And hell yes it's a productivity tool!
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Sander Rossel wrote: I think there's only one application I've used on a daily basis for about twenty years now... Winamp!
+1
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Brief I remember and loved.
Still use VB 6.0 on occasion for some legacy stuff for multiple phone line recordings for jails and such written more years ago than I want to think about BUT - still going. (They are still running NT server since it was the last server that supported the multi-line phone cards they use).
I remember buying MS FORTRAN, and a PL/1 compiler on floppy - both ran by swapping floppies like crazy when compiling.
Turbo Pascal 1.0 saw a LOT of use when I was contracting to the Army.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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Lap link! Well I still have a cable that I use occasionally!
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Gawd! I'd forgotten that one.
Copying 32MB HDD over a RS232 link ... I still get flashbacks ...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Yep. I shudder to think of how many MB I copied using that program. But it was very good at what it did.
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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LapLink! Wow; I'm going to get floppy nightmares now!
- I would love to change the world, but they wonโt give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: floppy nightmares
Really - how about the dreaded 'token ring network' nightmares!
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Sql Server and ESRI ArcInfo were both there almost 30 years ago when I started working professionally.
Brent
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Hello there, fellow Arc/Info user! Been a user since 4.x circa 1991 and still have a few AML scripts running in production that are just waiting for time allocation to be rewritten and retired. ๐
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I still use Vi every day 
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Rar/Winrar
I acquired my license about 20 years now.
noop()
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PC? No. Though I have my Turbo BASIC and PFS: First Choice floppies and manuals. Turbo BASIC worked on 32-bit Win 7, but doesn't in 64-bit Win10.
I ditched my Turbo C/C++ and Pascal stuff ago, but I still use Borland's C/C++ command line tools on occasion.
Real computers? Yes, started using EDT on a PDP-11 in 1983 and it's still my editor of choice on my various OpenVMS systems.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Lotus Word Pro? (The best word processor ever created)
Sorry OG but even from it's first day Word has been better than Lotus' crap.
The Beer Prayer - Our lager, which art in barrels, hallowed be thy drink. Thy will be drunk, I will be drunk, at home as it is in the tavern. Give us this day our foamy head, and forgive us our spillage as we forgive those who spill against us. And lead us not to incarceration, but deliver us from hangovers. For thine is the beer, the bitter and the lager, for ever and ever. Barmen.
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Like some others I started in DOS, so nothing really would have survived to now. I also used Brief and really liked it, and of course for a long time afterwards any editor would have good Brief emulation. But eventually it faded away and I had to get used to the more common Windows schemes.
I started with C (Turbo C? Can't remember) and assembler. I remember going to the store and buying the IBM assembler package and being really excited, and get the BIOS manual with all of the BIOS code. Talk about spaghetti, I think they might have reused single bytes via jump sometimes. But 8K ain't a lot to work with.
I'm guessing I also used Turbo Pascal some as well.
I remember when I moved to OS/2. It used to drive me freaking crazy that the hard drive would start moving on its own. In DOS unless your program told the hard drive to do something it didn't do anything. I was constantly jerking around at the sound of the hard drive (and they were't quiet in those days) suddenly grinding on its own and having a moment of fear that something bad was happening.
Explorans limites defectum
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Dean Roddey wrote: the sound of the hard drive (and they were't quiet in those days) suddenly grinding on its own and having a moment of fear that something bad was happening
That's a nightmare I lived a couple of years ago, awakened in the middle of the night by a strange tick-tick-ticking sound coming from the home/office server.  It was then that I realized it had been months since I did a complete backup. Lesson learned.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I am really surprised that nobody mentions Total Commander (a.k.a. Windows Commander 1993)!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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As my first work in computers was writing Excel macros (converting Lotus 123) I can safely claim Excel as a tool I still use.
I still have the installation disks (2 x 3.25") for SuperBase, no drive of course. What a magic program that was, 1 disk for the database, another for the application and you had a solution to deliver. Even made 9600 baud viable.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Still use NE (Norton editor) for assembler stuff, mostly within DOS emulators.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Still use Xtree Pro - it does one particular thing well that nothing else does as easily or efficiently, so I use it for that: it allows you to compare two directory trees containing identically named files that may vary in size only and find all the larger, smaller or identical ones and manipulate the results en-mass.
Directory Opus is the nearest Windows UI equivalent I can find ( and I use that all the time ) - this is, of course, a port of the excellent Amiga program!
I have a friend who still uses Xtree Pro as his primary file manager (on Windows 10) every day.
I still use (and much prefer) Wordperfect as a word processor (first used Version 4.2 under DOS). (Word, despite millions of man years of development and billions of dollars of investment, is still an abomination of the worst kind for anything more complex than very simple documents; compared with Excel which has - with one or two blips - steadily improved over the years and is probably the most useful and used MS product I possess other than the OSs themselves.)
Although I still have a working copy of Brief, I mainly use Jetbrains products now for software dev: a great shame no one has done a Brief keyboard emulation for it though as I can still remember the keystrokes!
And of course, under linux, I still use the many of the same utilities that I started with under Microport Unix - things I learnt then still work today.
Sure I could come up with some more if I thought hard enough...
8)
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