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Tech bros having their production environments nuked by AI is never gonna get old (suppo.fi)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@suppo.fi to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] BLAMM@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That is way older that 2004. I first read that in the early 90s.

[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

TIL Win98 was out in the early '90s....

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's because the joke got updated to the newest OS version until CONFIG.SYS got entirely removed in Windows ME and it just didn't work any more.
It's originally from MS-DOS times. Earliest telling of it I know of is from 1996.

[–] hypeerror@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The 60's happened in the 70's.

The 70's happened in the 80's.

You get where I'm going here?

[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think so. The 2010-2020s happened in the 1930-1940s, amirite?