[harrybr]

I worked at a well known UK newspaper about 6-7 years ago. I found out that the daily print newspaper was edited in quarkXPress without a CMS. After publishing the newspaper each night, a team of night workers would come in and copy-paste articles into the tablet edition CMS before morning (for iPad & android tablet subscribers). Entirely by hand. The main website was on a totally separate CMS so the next day, news articles were copy-pasted into that CMS by an offshore team in India. Also by hand. There was also an archive team whose job it was to copy-paste everything into some other separate archival system. By hand.

[dotancohen]

This is janky. Most of this thread describes OLD tech, but this is janky tech.

[dylan604]

If you haven't worked at a place that entirely runs from a giant Excel file created by Janice who worked there for 2 years back in the 90s, then you just haven't lived.

[dotancohen]

That spreadsheet where Janice records the Mercedes Benz, the colour TV, and a night on the town?

[PeterWhittaker]

Good one, he said wistfully, realizing exactly how old he was.