OT: Increasingly unrealistic old IT stories WAS Re: OT Home Highway, is it worth it?

["andy_powell_is" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

Pure bliss. we didn't have any of that, we sat in the mud all day
grunting...

Andy

--- In ukha_d@y..., "Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@e...>
wrote:
> Stone tablets, eh? Hark at "Mr. Digital"...
>
> When I was first a programmer, the code was a series of instructions
> given by the priesthood to the assembled masses, and carried out in
> physical labour in the fields of Sumeria. I remember those who
talked
> about the introduction of "solid-stone" memory, but if
word-of-mouth
> replication was good enough for the high priest, it was good enough
for
> me!
>
> Results within a day - pah - we didn't know if our planting
algorithms
> had worked until winter!
>
> Mark Harrison
> Head of Systems, eKingfisher



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