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

submitted 18 hours ago by cm0002@suppo.fi to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] BLAMM@lemmy.world 26 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 10 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 10 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours 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 6 points 12 hours 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 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

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