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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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Anon sends a file (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mean historically humans have been known to not keep records on our old technologies so it wouldn't be very far fetched for us to end up in a situation where we don't have the knowledge of how to build only maintain.

[–] Donebrach@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Case in point: at an old job of mine we had two ancient (probably 70 year olds) on as consultants because a vital computer system was operating on COBOL and the two dudes were the 1) literal architects of the system and 2) only people who still knew COBOL (or at least the iteration the system was built in).

I know that the vital system has since been replaced (although I guarantee old data is still in the legacy system) and that there were probably other people alive that could be brought on in theory, but we live in the real world and not a magical video game where experts are hirable by simply offering 100 xp points and 800 (money)… although it seems that reality is becoming more and more normalized.