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29 years ago, I worked for a little software company called PC DOCS that wrapped WordPerfect with the ability to have long file names, keywords, and full-text s
by paulmooreparks 5y ago
29 years ago, I worked for a little software company called PC DOCS that wrapped WordPerfect with the ability to have long file names, keywords, and full-text search. It was like sheer magic in the days of 8.3 DOS filenames. After I'd been there a while, I figured that's what the future would look like one day: no more hierarchical file systems or file names.
Current-day me would be embarrassed to tell 1993 me that things haven't really gotten much better. Sure, we expanded the 8 in 8.3, and the 3 grew to 4 or so, but I still spend an inordinate amount of time staring at a spinny widget whilst waiting for the OS to find a document.