[pram]

Also production servers with /etc full of files appended with .bak, .bak.oct, .bak.incident, .bak.goddamnit2

[bravetraveler]

I spend way too much time thinking back on how many things like this I've left around

[EvanAnderson]

You may be the only one. I wish the vendors I deal with spent even a nanosecond thinking about leaving stuff like that around. (Let alone multi-gigabyte copies of production databases, long-since obsoleted patches, etc.)

[Terr_]

Or possibly RCS, which was kinda-OK for config files.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_Control_System

[siva7]

I remember these times. But diff tools were still used in the 90s even when no scm available?

[lasereyes136]

I see we worked at the same place.