Someone broke the Internet

[ianrauk]

This morning my internet was not working.
It's amazing how that these days, work comes to an almost complete standstill when the internet fails.
No surfing, no emails...

I mean, I had to send a fax instead, which meant getting off my arse, walking across the office and putting the paper into that weird machine that sits there beeping now and again.

It's not all that long ago we did everything by fax and pen & paper. A dozen years or so?

Amazing how quickly office time and work has changed.

 

[Hover Fly]

Mme HF still sends some hand written business letters. Works of art.

 

[4F]

This morning my internet was not working.
It's amazing how that these days, work comes to an almost complete standstill when the internet fails.
No surfing, no emails...

I mean, I had to send a fax instead, which meant getting off my arse, walking across the office and putting the paper into that weird machine that sits there beeping now and again.

It's not all that long ago we did everything by fax and pen & paper. A dozen years or so?

Amazing how quickly office time and work has changed.

I remember the days of the telex machine printing out your message onto a long thin strip before dialling the message and sending it on

Glad to see you have the priorties of surfing before e mail

 

[threebikesmcginty]

We still used a telex machine when I had my first office job

TKS CU THEN ++

 

[4F]

We still used a telex machine when I had my first office job

TKS CU THEN ++

And then watching as the tape gets snagged and breaks on that long message that you had taken the best part of 2 hours to compose

 

[threebikesmcginty]

OH **** +++

 

[jay clock]

It's not all that long ago we did everything by fax

Back in 1984 I was mooching around "between jobs" after leaving Uni and had a few days moving office furniture. In one place there was a machine in a corner churning out printouts ....."yes" he said, "they put the documents on a machine in Japan and dial our phone number and the documents are printed out here....." I was gobsmacked.... and did not really believe him.

 

[zacklaws]

And don't forget the good old typewriter and duplicator. Spend ages one finger typing to make a skin for the duplicator, load it into the duplicator, ink it, load with paper and turn the handle, and then keep having to clean the skin of excess ink.

 

[davefb]

us "the internets down!"

boss "you'll get some work done then"

us "you do remember we are working on a flash game for facebook with offsite servers?"


normally ends up being one half of BT not having spoken to another...

 

[ianrauk]

Back in 1984 I was mooching around "between jobs" after leaving Uni and had a few days moving office furniture. In one place there was a machine in a corner churning out printouts ....."yes" he said, "they put the documents on a machine in Japan and dial our phone number and the documents are printed out here....." I was gobsmacked.... and did not really believe him.

Around about the same time. I remember the company I worked for at the time sending a letter out to all our customers asking if anyone was going to be using a facsimile machine as they where thinking of buying one. And as you say, when we saw it in action for the first time, mouths were agape in amazement.