He should have stuck with office humor. One of his classics from around 1980 was of Dilbert holding a huge paper document and talking on the phone. He was explaining a series of IT problems. that wouldn’t allow him to send his report online or via fax and therefore, since it was due, he was going to read it over the phone.
At the time that cartoon came out, the division I worked in was borrowing space in another organization’s building on an Army base and networks were ‘new’. The two organizations and the base all had separate networks. Also, while we each had our own desktop computer, we didn’t have software on them — it had to be downloaded every time we used it. That meant we would open the software and wait. Unfortunately, it sometimes took so long to download that one of the networks would time out and we would have to start over. We had a printer in our area; but to print out a document from our computer, we would have to download the software to open the document and then “print.” The print command would go from the computer to the building’s network and then over the base’s network and to my organization’s network and then back again. It was faster to read the document off the screen over the phone. That Dilbert cartoon stayed on our bulletin board until we moved back to our own building.
I will try to remember the office humor and forget the rest. RIP Dilbert.
He should have stuck with office humor. One of his classics from around 1980 was of Dilbert holding a huge paper document and talking on the phone. He was explaining a series of IT problems. that wouldn’t allow him to send his report online or via fax and therefore, since it was due, he was going to read it over the phone.
At the time that cartoon came out, the division I worked in was borrowing space in another organization’s building on an Army base and networks were ‘new’. The two organizations and the base all had separate networks. Also, while we each had our own desktop computer, we didn’t have software on them — it had to be downloaded every time we used it. That meant we would open the software and wait. Unfortunately, it sometimes took so long to download that one of the networks would time out and we would have to start over. We had a printer in our area; but to print out a document from our computer, we would have to download the software to open the document and then “print.” The print command would go from the computer to the building’s network and then over the base’s network and to my organization’s network and then back again. It was faster to read the document off the screen over the phone. That Dilbert cartoon stayed on our bulletin board until we moved back to our own building.
I will try to remember the office humor and forget the rest. RIP Dilbert.