LOL, when I started out I was polishing the disks for handmade hard drives.I don't remember the 1990's.
When I first started in this IT stuff, my mainframe was still consuming a steady diet of the 8" discs.
The Early Days of My IT Career
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The modern, "back in my day," speech. I think uphill both ways in snow with my feet wrapped in newspaper, or the dust bowl stories, still win. ;-)
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When I lived in Cornwall, CT I loved the tales of the old timers there. The roads were not paved and during the winter kids in some parts went to school in a horse and sleigh. A couple fellows recalled kids getting frostbite during particularly hard winters.
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In the not so distant past, the trains were the life lines to get to points east. That was before they built the Noden Causeway for vehicular traffic that was opened in 1965. Many of the farming families still have some horses, sleighs, wagons ... just a hobby now. A large portion of the logging industry in this area was managed by draft horses for many years - pulling logs to the river for log drives. The original highway was a corduroy road...
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