I was at an ad agency a while back and there was a big project deadline looming. The folks who were printing this particular ad were about 150 miles away and had to get all of the files that the agency had put together in a hurry. We found out the hard way, after trial and error, that the print house didn't have any Internet access at all, so we couldn't email the data. So I suggested that we meet half way, and I'd give them the files on a zip disk. I asked the woman on the phone if she had a zip. She replied with a five digit number.
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Now the question is: Who ever used a ZIP disk in the first place?!?!??
The PC is Dead: It’s Time to Make Computing Personal Again
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How surveillance capitalism and DRM turned home tech from friend to foe.
For a while—in the ’80s, ’90s, and early 2000s—it felt like nerds were
making the ...
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