I'm so old I remember when the internet didn't have commercials.
@kibcol1049 I remember dialup to connect to an ad free internet, worse than that I remember punch cards .
@harrymuzz At my first job, the computer room temperature was controlled with double door air lock to enter. The computer was huge with punch card operators typing and huge floor to ceiling reel to reel tapes. The print outs were on large sheets of paper and took several runs for all the errors to be corrected. With programmers, inputters and clerks, there were about 8 staff. Nowadays a kid of 8 or 9 could do it all and more on a smartphone and 30 times quicker! Hard to believe but true.
@kibcol1049 @harrymuzz My mother's friend worked with Univac in the 60's, the name always sounded so strange and dystopian. I worked for a while digitizing maps, I got kind of addicted to keypunch and flapping the cards through the reader. Made a nice sound.

@sunumbral @kibcol1049 @harrymuzz Ah, them. I still remember when they tried to claim ownership of the GIF file format.

I wonder where they (or probably more accurately, whatever's left of their IP) now?

@rodneylives @sunumbral @kibcol1049 @harrymuzz Wasn't that Unisys? I remember the LZW compression patent debacle.
@stuartl @sunumbral @kibcol1049 @harrymuzz Aaaaaaah I think you're right. Curse my failing memory.