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Two dozen years is a long time to be involved in software. That’s why I’d like to take this time to thank God I've only been alive that long and this is only my 3rd year in industry.
Imagine what it must be like, to have worked in Software in 1983? You'd be like 60 freakin' years old today! That'd be a bummer. But I'm only 24, hence I have MP3's and quad core processors and an Xbox 360. I went to bed at 3 AM last night and got in at 11:30 AM this morning. It would have been later, but I couldn’t pass up a free lunch I was asked to attend. (Yes, I set an alarm to get me up that early).
Being it’s my birthday, I was allowed to wear t-shirt and jeans to work today. Not that that’s different than any other day. But I mean, travel back in time to 1983, where would you be able to dress casually on your birthday AND your 364 unbirthdays?
1983: Cubicle? Check. 64k of RAM or less? Check. Pocket protector and slide rule? Check.
Dystopian world looming in the next year? Check check.
There may have been one benefit to working in 1983 though: No “series of tubes” to hold up your “internets”. Life must have been grand.
Oh, and if your current co-op requires dress pants and a tie and feels like an Orwellian society nicely wrapped up inside the walls of your little cubicle space, try applying to Microsoft. Life is good here.
(Note: You are free to put this in a time capsule and later ridicule me when I become officially and unequivocally “old”)
