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Cake day: June 28th, 2023

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  • My first job was building computers with old parts. A guy needed MS Word for work but didn’t want to buy a new computer or upgrade his 386SX (25Mhz iirc). It had like 20MB of disk and I don’t recall the RAM. So he asked me if I could try. So I did. I managed to install DOS, Windows 3.1 and MS Word. I don’t remember how long it took to boot, but I remember that it would take 6 seconds for a pressed letter to appear on the screen.










  • So, let me tell a little story from a couple of months ago. We were migrating a big system and we discovered that it was still sending fax to some destinations. We still have a fax server running. The way it works is that we send an email to <faxnumber>@fax.mycompany.com and it will send the fax to that number.

    So, we contacted the destinations and some declared that they didn’t even had faxes anymore. BUT, a few others still had them and, what a surprise, it was a fax server that would receive the fax… and transform it in an email!

    Of course, we changed those services and retired the fax server.





  • I was recently in Brazil and it amazes me how the country adopted the platform. You can do everything in it. And it’s not that you’re always talking to someone on the other side. It’s all automated. Remember those gigantic labyrinths of menus you had to listen when calling a business? Now it’s all in WhatsApp, but with the advantage of being much faster to read. I asked for a service in a company, they gave me a protocol number. When I wanted to check on it, I just had to type the number on WhatsApp and it would tell me if it was ready. So, no need to develop GUI, sites, and so on. Everything is accessible through WhatsApp.

    So, I understand why Meta rolled this out and started with Brazil.

    In the end, it feels like we made full circle and we’re coming back to the Telnet era of doing business.