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by wombatpm 497 days ago
You know there was a time when we had to wait dozens of seconds for the modem to finish its handshake before you could do anything.
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80s or 70s geezer, huh?

60s grandgeezer here. try waiting a week or two, to find out that your punched card batch job didn't even compile, let alone run, because of a single character typo you made. back to square zero.

kids these days ...