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Back when computer expertise was hard to come by, so admins could lord over users. The Internet has made these people extinct. SNL parody: https://www.youtube.c

• h2odragon 2y ago
  relatable by all the unseen engineers whose job it is to keep the machines running, so that everybody else can do their jobs. especially so in the early days of computing, from whence the stories come; where "reliability" was a laugh
• josefx 2y ago
  Most users only bother with quick solutions for whatever problem they have, not with any deeper understanding. They get the kind of expertise where the BOFH only has to sit on the sidelines with a bucket of popcorn, watch the user shred their own system and offer a pristine replacement with all their local data gone. The amount of times I have seen users click past pages of apt install ouput after messing with the package sources has been well above zero.
• surfingdino 2y ago
  They still lord over us, but ask ChatGPT to write Terraform for them.
• CRConrad 2y ago
  1) WTF, Jackie Chan was on SNL?!? Ya live and learn... 2) And they had -- remarkably current, today of all days -- pagers.