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Tag Archives: old time stuff

The Last Bug

26 Friday Aug 2022

Posted by Wyrd Smythe in Fun

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computer humor, funny poetry, humor, old time stuff, poetry

Recently I posted an oldie from the last century. Here’s another from the deep time layers of my file system. It’s a poetic parable any programmer can relate to.

Think of it as the programmer’s version of Sisyphus.

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Bits Bytes Chips Clocks

03 Thursday Mar 2022

Posted by Wyrd Smythe in Fun

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computer humor, funny poetry, humor, old time stuff, poetry

It’s been a while since I posted here, many balls in the fire and irons in the air, so I thought I’d dig into my archives for an oldie, albeit one more of tin than of gold.

This one comes from a 1995 email from a co-worker who was forwarding something cute she’d found in a Delphi Forum.

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Blast From the Past #1

19 Tuesday Jul 2016

Posted by Wyrd Smythe in Fun

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email, old time stuff, SMTP, text file, upload

In the process of cleaning out boxes of old paperwork, I found this company memo, circa early 1980s, that describes a “simpler” way to send email. At the time, email systems were mainframe-based text systems you logged onto and typed at — actually not terribly unlike the web-based email systems today.

The memo reminds me of how it was back then and of how far we’ve come since. Here it is, reproduced as is:

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