Sometimes I think about all the things I do for work and how not very long ago, it would have taken months instead of days.

Imagine taking an average worker of today and their output back to 1998. They would definitely be under suspicion of cocaine use.

  • 1D10@lemmy.world
    48·
    1 day ago

    I was an inspector in an airplane factory in 1998. And honestly if we had had 2020 PCs in the shop I would have been around 75% more effective.

    A large part of my day was spent resetting PCs they had just started useing them on shop floor and all the old fucks who worked there had 0.00 computer knowledge I got calls to “Send 1d10” by union contract I wasn’t allowed to do “IT” jobs as I was union and IT mostly didn’t exist, it took days for a IT call to get answered.

    90% of the “send 1d10” calls were because they had locked up the PC by having to many windows open, they were afraid to close them so they minimized the non work related windows, but then didn’t know where they went so they opened a new one.

    • 123@programming.dev
      6·
      17 hours ago

      Yes, I was thinking how finicky and slow computers were back then (when compared to your now average PC) requiring restarts and the occasional BSoD showing up.

      My guess is that with my current knowledge of computers now, I could have been more effective, but would be limited by the hardware more than anything.

      Nowadays I freak out if my personal computer even gets a hint of slowness on day to day tasks (as i recently found out using unrar on Linux…)