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https://youtu.be/TQUsLAAZuhU https://youtu.be/TQUsLAAZuhU That movie brought computer culture into the "mainstream" and made my already complicated life a lot
by vaxman 2y ago
https://youtu.be/TQUsLAAZuhU https://youtu.be/TQUsLAAZuhU
That movie brought computer culture into the "mainstream" and made my already complicated life a lot more difficult. Among people under 40, the reaction was swift and stark compared to those who generally didn't "go out to movies" anymore (older workers). I had to adopt two very different personas to continue relating to them all (on top of being ready to be quizzed down to my shorts at least three times a day by the really old brass, like a former systems manager of a nuclear lab and an architect of the Unix memory manager who were generally convinced they were the subject of an ongoing joke involving hidden cameras and an unauthorized set of [the 30 volume VAX/VMS] documentation somewhere). Bear in mind that nobody at work was under 23 (in an era when, by 23, many people were married and having their first child) and I was still young enough to be in high school, but out of college, wearing a monkey suit and riding the bus from my apartment to work everyday at a computer company...Unlike Apple and Microsoft, who had lots of young people with talent but no formal training or experience, I had no real age peers at work until 2000, just as the NASDAQ crashed.)