Another Angry WomanNov 29, 2022

"waah waaah mastodon is slow and glitchy sometimes, how can you bear it"

bitch I grew up with dial up. I scrolled endlessly through the hampster dance, half the jpegs broken. I spent an hour looking for and downloading a simple mp3. I waited my 54 minutes to continue watching a ropey stream of true blood with unsynced audio. I still use tumblr. you are like tiny baby

Show threadAnthonyUplandpoetWatkinsNov 29, 2022
@stavvers
Yeah, programming with punch cards was a bear…:) >old guy here
Show threadmarkfrombethesdaNov 29, 2022
@AnthonyUplandpoetWatkins @stavvers JCL here
//FT08f001 blah blah until col80
Show threadAnthonyUplandpoetWatkins
@markmorgan @stavvers pretty much:) in fairness i got the tail end of punchcards, but i did spend my college years with a typewriter phone cradle interface to the mainframe. somehow i bet my laptop is much more powerful than that whole building full of tape machines...
Nov 29, 2022 at 10:55pmWeb
Show threadmarkfrombethesdaNov 29, 2022
@AnthonyUplandpoetWatkins @stavvers absolutely. Things have advanced pretty quickly.
Show threadPugthugNov 30, 2022
@AnthonyUplandpoetWatkins @markmorgan @stavvers When I first started in IT half the computer room was taken up by one mainframe computer that had less power and speed than my cell phone.
Show threadAnthonyUplandpoetWatkinsNov 30, 2022
@cjcrew @markmorgan @stavvers
I never saw our main frame. I just dialed it up with the telephone cradle.
Show threadRain EricksonNov 30, 2022

@AnthonyUplandpoetWatkins @markmorgan @stavvers yes.

My phone is more powerful today.