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Artefacts of the Technology Business

by Greg Young  |  June 25, 2009  |  3 Comments

Things I will have to explain to my 5 year old son in time:

  1. Group photos.  These seemed to end when we stopped working in offices.  I miss group photos.  The rigid hierarchies I don’t.
  2. Disks and diskettes.  Although we seem just as good as losing thumb-drives.  Try losing an 8 inch floppy.
  3. That box of parallel cables
  4. When P-n-P wasn’t.  Connecting a new hard drive was up there with heart surgery. Having to manually entering how many sectors and set some pins?  That was classy yet pointless.
  5. x.400 email addresses.
  6. Making your own LAN cables.
  7. Filling the red DataQuest binder with the monthly paper sheets(yes – I was a customer).
  8. Manually entering crypto keys.
  9. All that stuff in the box in the basement.

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  • 1 JB Haber   June 25, 2009 at 4:19 pm

    Another one:

    - Email. Kids these days use social networking sites to communcate. Email is so yesterday.

  • 2 Greg Young   June 25, 2009 at 9:20 pm

    Good one JB.

  • 3 Crypto-Technology » IBM claims hacker-resistant crypto technology   July 6, 2009 at 2:18 am

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