Get ready to shout GET OFF MY LAWN if these ring a bell:
- You not only know what "CC" really means, but you've also used carbon paper.
- You recall the agonies of retyping an entire document. Back before auto-save, back when one line-edit meant rewriting everything.
- Picking white-out from under your nails and the dread upon spotting the ink/carbon smeared across the side of your hand is quite familiar.
- Tearing off the hole-punched paper guides from dot-matrix papers and cursing when the perforations tore before the print job was done.
- The joy of learning Wordperfect 5.1 for DOS still gives you a warm fuzzy.
- The days when apps were software and you had to buy them in a box from a brick-and-mortar store, which meant planning a trip to a bookstore or CompUSA.
- You can describe cartridges, cassettes, floppies, and 3.1s.
- The sight of grey text on a blue screen brings back fond memories. Yep, green on black too.
- Adding sticky notes to your wall of DOS command codes to run programs and locate files (and threatening bodily harm to co-workers if they took one of those notes).
- The arrival of Windows 3.1 meant you didn't need to remember the DOS codes and was cause to celebrate; probably coincided with the start of your Solitare addiction.
- You laugh recalling at the first time you used spell check (F2+Ctrl).
Progress, it's a fabulous thing.
~shakes cane~
ReplyDelete(but it's a collapsible, lightweight alloy, shock-absorbent walking stick with LED path light)
LED path light? Whoooweee, you got yourself something faaancy!
Delete(I may have looked up the techno-fanciest model now available - but that path light *would* be a great feature, huh??)
DeleteI still worry at the line-editing phase, because what if the page reflows! Zomg! But then I remember how we don't use hot-metal typesetting anymore and ahhhh... I feel better. :)
ReplyDeleteLOL, bless those hot-metal typesetting days, or I wouldn't remember why we put the period and the comma inside the quotation marks. :D
DeleteRemember having to deal with charts, tables, and images in WordPerfect and going through all the anchoring when edits made the page reflow? ZOMG
DeleteOmg, yes! ~sobs~
DeleteI once worked as a word processing temp for a big PR firm in Chicago where they had ONE working daisy wheel in the corporately preferred font, and whichever department gained possession of The Daisy Wheel wielded immense power.
ReplyDelete~shrieks in horror~ 🌼 ~imagines the office antics to claim The One Wheel~ 🌼 ~dies laughing~
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