• manny_stillwagon@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    I used to work for municipal government in a major American city. The database for the entire city downloaded query results to your desktop formatted as Excel 95. Still does.

    At one point I had to install special R packages because someone retired and I was tasked with taking over the worksheet they had been maintaining forever and the usual R packages to read data from Excel can’t parse Excel 5.0.

    There was also someone in the office who still used a typewriter on the regular.

    • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      You and I live similar lives in different places.

      There are people in my office that print out their emails to read at their desk, right in front of their computer.

      Collaborative document editing has been around for over a decade, and yet we’re still emailing each other different versions of docs.