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Daily Discussion Thread:🧃Mon 19 Feb 2024

You oughta be congratulated!

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  • Watching a video on the history of floppy disks and some comment says kids would probably be asking "why is this man pulling out weird DVDs from a 3D-printed Save icon"

    In ten years time even that wouldn't make sense any more...

    • I was there 3000 years ago.

      • When we used cassette tapes

        • punch cards

          • I don't think anyone who used punch cards professionally is still working. we had to do a cobol assignment in the early 90's with cards, and even then they were ancient history. I doubt anyone was still using cards after about the mid-80's.

            Do not recommend. But they really do give you an appreciation for a keyboard and monitor. Kids these days honestly take them for granted.

          • cabinet of alphabetically ordered index cards

          • Not at home

        • reel to reel tapes.

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