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Re: Let's all meet up in the Y2K

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Post by helsinkiandrew »

darkwater wrote: post #20

Focusing more on the "social side" rather the HW part, there is the part about the "Viral email", which must have been something that went viral in the UK Internet circles but not outside (I don't remember it and Y2K Internet was much smaller). Investigating about it you can end up reading The Register "article" about it [1] and well, that's something that definitely would not be published nowadays. Names and surname…

> which must have been something that went viral in the UK Internet circles but not outside (I don't remember it and Y2K Internet was much smaller).

From a quick google it seems to have been reported in most of the tabloids and broadsheets.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/2000/12/16/Woman-in-hiding-afte...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1081543.stm

Re: Let's all meet up in the Y2K

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Post by wofo »

snapcaster wrote: post #32
Krei-se wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's because of all the added abstractions. 20-30 years ago you were closer to the metal, similarly to how you would play with arduino now. But now all you get is blackboxes which fogs the mind. De-alienate yourself! Feel the tools again! Learn low-level concepts and use them in your work (data-driven design, functional programming, etc.). Then it's like woodworking and cooking again.

No it's because we're social animals that are supposed to be around other people. Sick of covid granting so much legitimacy to the antisocial among us. I actually think everyone should be forced to 5 day RTO for their own good

Plenty of us who prefer working from home have a very rich social life. It's just not centered around being in the same building together with the people you happen to work with.

Re: Let's all meet up in the Y2K

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Post by TrackerFF »

At my last employer we had a extensive photo gallery with workplace pictures taken from the 60s and up to present day, thousands if images. It was fun to browse through when you had some downtime.

But, as with this collection, I was most surprised how little things like fashion had changed between say 2000 and 2025. Sure, eyeglasses and some clothing articles (mostly suits/coats/ties, which were a bit roomier and bigger back then...) could give away the era, but in the pics where people just wore chinos or jeans and some casual sweater or t-shirt, not much has changed.

Compare that to looking at a picture from 2000 and just 1990, 10 years, and the difference is like night and day. Or 1990 and 1980.

At some point on the early 2000s, casual everyday wear among adults just stopped evolving, or slowed down tremendously. The giveaway is usually the tech and furniture, or photo quality (how it was captured).

Re: Let's all meet up in the Y2K

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Post by messe »

snapcaster wrote: post #32
Krei-se wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's because of all the added abstractions. 20-30 years ago you were closer to the metal, similarly to how you would play with arduino now. But now all you get is blackboxes which fogs the mind. De-alienate yourself! Feel the tools again! Learn low-level concepts and use them in your work (data-driven design, functional programming, etc.). Then it's like woodworking and cooking again.

No it's because we're social animals that are supposed to be around other people. Sick of covid granting so much legitimacy to the antisocial among us. I actually think everyone should be forced to 5 day RTO for their own good

I get to spend more time at social activities I enjoy on days I work remotely because I don't have to waste my time on a commute.

> I actually think everyone should be forced to 5 day RTO for their own good

I think you should get a life outside of the office.

Re: Let's all meet up in the Y2K

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Post by zabzonk »

robin_reala wrote: post #34
zabzonk wrote: post #17

Ah yes, back when caring about hardware was a thing. Early 90s, new top-of-line Compaq arrives, for me, project manager. We open it to install network card - token ring (yes, it sucked to be you - you could almost see the little tokens slouching round the ring). me: jesus, just look at that heat-sink! male programmer: yeah, they really knocked it out with that anodised blue - can i get the next one? female tech lead:…

A mention of token ring made me look up Madge, but it seems like they, probably unsurprisingly, died in 2003.

Never heard of Madge before. AFAIK, our token ring networking (at a big 6 accountancy) was all supplied by IBM, but I could be wrong. In any case, I despised it for poor speed and reliability.

Re: Let's all meet up in the Y2K

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Post by msephton »

TrackerFF wrote: post #43

At my last employer we had a extensive photo gallery with workplace pictures taken from the 60s and up to present day, thousands if images. It was fun to browse through when you had some downtime. But, as with this collection, I was most surprised how little things like fashion had changed between say 2000 and 2025. Sure, eyeglasses and some clothing articles (mostly suits/coats/ties, which were a bit roomier and big…

Y2K is a strange half familiar, half alternate timeline sort of nostalgia, isn't it?

Re: Let's all meet up in the Y2K

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Post by inigyou »

Krei-se wrote: post #12
tetris11 wrote: post #6

"When work felt like home" Gosh I haven't experienced that in a while. Working remote really does feel like a death sentence sometimes

It's because of all the added abstractions. 20-30 years ago you were closer to the metal, similarly to how you would play with arduino now. But now all you get is blackboxes which fogs the mind. De-alienate yourself! Feel the tools again! Learn low-level concepts and use them in your work (data-driven design, functional programming, etc.). Then it's like woodworking and cooking again.

That's true but it's nothing to do with local or remote work.

Re: Let's all meet up in the Y2K

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Post by Steve16384 »

TrackerFF wrote: post #43

At my last employer we had a extensive photo gallery with workplace pictures taken from the 60s and up to present day, thousands if images. It was fun to browse through when you had some downtime. But, as with this collection, I was most surprised how little things like fashion had changed between say 2000 and 2025. Sure, eyeglasses and some clothing articles (mostly suits/coats/ties, which were a bit roomier and big…

Yeah, any photos from the 60's to the 90's and you can pretty easily tell which decade it is. Maybe it's because we all went online, and so are less bothered about our physical style and more about our online persona where most of our interaction now takes place.
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