Things I will have to explain to my 5 year old son in time:
- Group photos. These seemed to end when we stopped working in offices. I miss group photos. The rigid hierarchies I don’t.
- Disks and diskettes. Although we seem just as good as losing thumb-drives. Try losing an 8 inch floppy.
- That box of parallel cables
- 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.
- x.400 email addresses.
- Making your own LAN cables.
- Filling the red DataQuest binder with the monthly paper sheets(yes – I was a customer).
- Manually entering crypto keys.
- All that stuff in the box in the basement.
3 responses so far ↓
1 JB Haber // Jun 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 // Jun 25, 2009 at 9:20 pm
Good one JB.
3 Crypto-Technology » IBM claims hacker-resistant crypto technology // Jul 6, 2009 at 2:18 am
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