Humor: Cargo Cult Programming
Jason Stephenson
jason at sigio.com
Fri Nov 15 08:53:05 EST 2002
bscott at ntisys.com wrote:
> Geez. *Light* has some latency issues, too. I spent years at 2400 baud
> on dialup systems where colored text was considered an advanced feature.
> And I'm just a young'un. There are people on the list who remember when
> teletypes really did *type*.
I'm only 32 (well next Wednesday, anyway) and I've actually worked on a
program that sent data over a 2400 baud connection directly to a
teletype machine. That was in 1997 and 1998 or so. I didn't write the
original, but became responsible for maintenance for a brief time. I had
to learn all the "shift codes" to make it print bold and so on. Don't
say that us young'uns don't know anything, but I guess by modern
programming hiring practices, I'm old.
>
> You people today. You don't know how good you've got it. ;-)
>
My first 'net connection was over a 2400 baud modem to a Unix server. I
used that modem for 3 years before I could afford a 14400 modem. I used
that for several years before getting ADSL at 768 Kbps / 128 Kbps.
Today, I'm on a dedicated SDSL line at 144 Kbps both ways, and sometimes
it feels slow.
I know how good I've got it. I could use a *slow* line again if I had
to, but once you've used the Condor who wants to go back to a Goonie
Bird? ;-)
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