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[–] SuperFola@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It sure took them a while!

I’m curious how they had to send the floppy disk. Like, go to a special place to use an old computer that could still write to floppy disks? Or create your word document/pdf, compress it as much as possible and somehow find a place to put that on a floppy?

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

It would sure make for no-BS documents.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

I vaguely recall reading something about some of their departments were not even using the floppy. Like you had to submit with a floppy, but it was never actually written or read from, and you supplied the documents another way. (I could have entirely made this up, don't quote me)

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

the country's inner workings are far behind other well established countries, with some government agencies still heavily relying on fax machines to carry on with daily work.

I once heard that was mainly because older people would rather fax hand-written script than use a computer for it, not sure.