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This made me feel very old. Too me it’s 100% logical and not a mystery - while I fully understand that it’s super-weird for people born after 1990
by mgax 2y ago
This made me feel very old. Too me it’s 100% logical and not a mystery - while I fully understand that it’s super-weird for people born after 1990
- bongodongobob 2y agoHa, agreed. I was training a new help desk employee a couple years ago (22 years old) and dated the shit out of myself explaining why I don't like spaces or special characters in file names and directories and why we want to try to keep them as short as possible.
- bitwize 2y agoBack in the day that would mark you as a DOS pleb rather than a member of the glorious Macintosh master race.
- tailspin2019 2y agoI thoroughly enjoyed the early days of my career/learning as a DOS pleb!
- bitwize 2y agoSo did I, but Macintosh people looked at it from an angle of "Why would you not put spaces in file names? They're meant to be human readable, and you will click on files more than you will type them in anyway." They were right, in the end. The future was less evenly distributed in the 80s.
- paulddraper 2y agodark days
- FabHK 2y agoSorry, 100% expected, sure, 100% normal, fine, 100% unremarkable, ok, but 100% logical?
- Spunkie 2y agoI still instruct employees to never use spaces or weird characters in filename because they are a pain when I run into them in a CLI. I don't foresee that advice ever changing lol