Code Vintage
Noun · Hacker Culture
Definitions
A playful way of referring to the age or era of a codebase, often as if it were wine with a particular character. The phrase is usually used humorously when dealing with old systems and long-lived patterns.
In plain English: A joking way to refer to how old or era-specific some code is.
Example: "You could tell the code vintage immediately from the table prefixes, inline SQL style, and the comments apologizing for Internet Explorer 6."