Agreed. I would add that this place if far more civil and thoughtful than the MaxFisch of ten or 15 years ago. When domina.ms disappeared earlier this week I thought the worst.

My first computer programming class in college used card punch, so I kinda' like the "new fangled" way of doing things.

Yes... But then you had something tangible...

Okay, so it was a large ass stack of cards with a big rubberband around them and put panic if you dropped them all... But, still tangible

Yea... Some of us "old timers" remember the months it was down last year, that was when I thought it was gone forever... This barely even registered for me

I remember in the 70s, I was a kid, and my friend's mom was an engineer, and she was working on her PhD. And as part of that, she was writing a program in FORTRAN to calculate the curvature of a railroad track.

We went to the computing center at the university with her. She had a deck of punch cards. And in those days, you'd give your deck to someone at a desk. Then in a couple of hours, they'd give you back a printout of what your program had done.

One time she dropped her deck, and it just scattered on the floor. I think she had a lot going on, but that put her over the line, she broke down and cried and cried.

People today (myself included) cant even remember phone numbers and you expect them to remember an IP address? We'd all end up at 127.0.0.1 Lol If it weren't for DNS servers most of us would likely only visit 5 or 6 websites.

Hi DemonVoxx! Nice to "see" you here.