ColI'm so old I remember when the internet didn't have commercials.
Barry Rowlingson@kibcol1049 I'm so old I remember when the internet was in black and white and they played an mp3 of the national anthem before it shut down every night.
Trouble@geospacedman @kibcol1049 I'm so old, I remember when the Internet was black and green...
Will 
@trouble @geospacedman @kibcol1049 Wasn't there a time when the internet was a line printer? Before my time, but I recall whispers from the founding folks.
@AncTreat5358 @geospacedman @kibcol1049 I think you mean teletypes (i.e /dev/tty), but yes. I am not that old. I have never used punch card or tape either.
MissConstrue@trouble @AncTreat5358 @geospacedman @kibcol1049
I have both programmed with punchcards, and maintained supercomputers with tape. I may be an Elder. 🤷🏻♀️🤘🏼🥳. Why I remember when we telnet into each others bbs, and we liked it!
@AncTreat5358 @trouble @geospacedman @kibcol1049
One of the "funniest" is when I worked on supercomputers at 3InitialCorp, which was a very buttoned down, blue suit red tie kinda place, but I worked in the servers, so I dressed like a geek; concert tshirts, jeans, doc martins, visible tattoos, weird hair. I was young...early 20s...so about 40 years ago, pre dotcom.
I got a typed letter, hand signed by an executive, which I still have somewhere, which "reminded" me that the dress code for women was knee length skirts, panty hose, heels, well coifed hair, and manicured nails.
And I invited the executive & HR down to the pit with it's wire grate walkways, and pointed up and said "You're telling me to wear skirt and heels and walk around on that? You wanna run that past your lawyer first, or should I call mine?" They changed the dress code to casual for my dept.
And people want to know why there weren't a lot of women in tech in the beginning. Huh. Weird, that.
Jürgen Schiewe@MissConstrue I assume that minimum heels height was also mentioned.
@j_sci I don't remember a minimum, but 3" was the highest "allowable" height, lest we stray into "loose woman" territory. Ha.