This page has mysteriously appeared on the internet from someone who messed up by giving 4 files the metadata for 1 of the files but isn't going to fix it now because they have to get up in <6 hours
archive.org/details/univ...

Well as a library employee responsible for understanding copyright and upholding the sanctity of the book I definitely did not download 4 PDF manuals from some unknown website 15+ years ago so I definitely couldn't pass any on. Right.

(Possibly if I had they'd be the same as the law firm's anyway?)

Or accidentally printing 300 pages of data you thought you were exporting to disk but you forgot to set your "line printer" to file I/O.

Thanks to Manny Neira for this amazing website, still there 20 years later. I'd have been lost without this:
mannyneira.com/universe/

Sometimes I still miss having multi-value data fields without spawning a whole new linked table.

Mostly I do not miss editing things with a weird version of ED, or having 1 & 2-letter commands for everything so that you were always one 1-letter typo away from destroying something.

Great pic(k), [so terrible they're] great software names.

In a past life (but not as far past as you might think - even at the time it seemed arcane & anachronistic) I worked on the backend of an instance of another telnet-based library system running on another variety of Pick database, UniVerse.

“I’m not worried AI will take my job. I’m worried some executive or management person is going to *think* it can.”

-Random YouTube comment

Jo Cox was killed by a far right terrorist. Brianna Ghey was killed by transphobic classmates with violent and dehumanising obsessions. Neither murder had anything to do with being more civil or the victims’ presence on social media

Is it time for this classic @theonion.com infographic from late in the whale song & Magic Eye era?

*nods*

"Japanese
Noun
化ば (ba⸱ke)
1. transformation, disguise
2. monstrosity
3. deceive"

Checks out.