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Questions on #software can age you:

Q: What was your first operating system?

Q: What was your first word processor?

My answers: #DOS and WordStar respectively, the latter later made famous by George Martin, who uses it for distraction-free writing on an unnetworked DOS PC.

I remember, as a teenager in a Business Admin course (which I was on as a governmental rebuke for being happily unemployed), high-fiving the much older man I was paired with as we managed mail-merge on it together.