So… I’m starting an Off Topic thread for jokes that technology has quietly gone away.
You know the ones. Jokes that made perfect sense around the office 20 or 30 years ago, but if you told them to someone under 30 (or even under 40) today you’d probably get a blank stare followed by:
“What’s that?”
Which, frankly, makes the joke even better.
So dig through your mental archives and post your favorites. Floppy disks, fax machines, dial-up modems, CRT monitors, cassette tapes, overhead projectors… anything that once made perfect sense and is now basically archaeological evidence.
I’ll start with a classic…
The Coffee Cup Holder
Back in the day, every new desktop PC came with a handy little retractable coffee cup holder built right into the front of the computer.
Strangely, manufacturers eventually stopped including them.
Probably because people kept putting CDs in them.
Your turn… what technology joke has officially aged out?
“Why is the Save button a picture of a floppy disk?”
Because apparently we decided the universal symbol for “preserve my work” should be a storage device that most people under 30 have never actually used.
At some point, someone is going to ask:
“Why did they make the Save icon look like a vending machine?”
And the rest of us will just quietly age another five years.
I know youre frustrated, and I am as well, but you should try to remember Tim is a person too, and he is here on the forum because he cares and is trying to help.
Im sure he has the same frustrations you do, but probably moreso considering he is smack in the middle of it all, but obviously cant express that like non-Epicor employees can.
Alisa, I understand that you’re frustrated with the issues you’re dealing with, and I’m not going to minimize those. But I do disagree with the implication that because there are product or support issues, Epicor employees shouldn’t also interact with the community as people.
I’ve been part of the Epicor community for nearly three decades… first as a customer, then Support, Consulting, and now Product Management. One thing I’ve learned over all those years is that a customer relationship cannot consist exclusively of talking to each other when something is broken.
Sometimes we solve problems. Sometimes we debate how the product should work. Sometimes I learn something from everyone here that eventually influences the product. And sometimes we tell bad jokes about CD-ROM drives (or dad jokes @Mark_Wonsil).
Those relationships matter to me, and maintaining them is not separate from what I do. It is part of what I do.
I also don’t think every interaction between a software company and its customers needs to be a support case.
There are plenty of threads where we can, and should, have the hard conversations about product issues. And I have been doing exactly that all week, including this morning, taking information from this community and passing it directly to Development so the right people have the context and can act on it.
This particular “humor” thread was simply intended to be a little fun with my friends in a community I’ve been part of for a very long time.
If the only time we ever talk is when something is broken, then we are not really building a community or a relationship or friendships. We are just processing transactions.
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I almost p**d my pants.
When I first saw this I was a telephone support rep, and this came around with a BUNCH of other “weekly technical update” kind of stuff. We all just lost it.
I chose the Hazeline over the Soroc… I thought it looked dumb, and it didnt have a 10key pad. This also had a display that was blue on dark or dark on blue (if i remember correctly)
