@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.