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I'm fine with all that but there were no follow-ups. All lead-up and no release. Where were the interviews with Cobol nerds standing in front of huge tape driv
by drewcoo 3y ago
I'm fine with all that but there were no follow-ups. All lead-up and no release.
Where were the interviews with Cobol nerds standing in front of huge tape drives, sweating even in the chilly server room air as they mumbled inscrutable things?
The folks who fixed Y2K bugs were not the fad-driven, easy-money-chasing web weenies of the dot com boom. They were folks who worked on computers because they actually liked it.
- mrguyorama 3y ago>Where were the interviews with Cobol nerds standing in front of huge tape drives, sweating even in the chilly server room air as they mumbled inscrutable things? Those didn't sell to the general public nearly as well as "oh my god we are all going to die", which seems to sell gangbusters to the same-ish cohort every ten years.