In 2000, I spent a year abroad. At the time, desktop computers were the norm, and laptops were prohibitively expensive. USB flash drives had literally JUST hit the market, and the cloud was barely something industry insiders talked about. I produced huge amounts of text on computers, however, and the way I transferred it was using 3.5″ 1.44 MB floppy drives. Microsoft hadn’t even started talking about version control features in the Office suite yet, but I had to keep track of what file to hand in to my tutor. In lieu of actual version control came increasingly impossible to deal with naming conventions such as this:
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