> Computing in the 90s meant hitting ctrl-s every 5 seconds because you never knew when the application you were using was going to crash.

THIS.

I lost so much work in the 90s and 00s. I was a kid, so I had patience and it didn't cost me any money. I can't imagine people losing actual work presentations or projects.

Every piece of software was like this. It was either the app crashing or Windows crashing. I lost Flash projects, websites, PHP code.

Sometimes software would write a blank buffer to file too, so you needed copies.

Version control was one of my favorite discoveries. I clung to SVN for the few years after I found it.

My final major loss was when Open Office on Ubuntu deleted my 30 page undergrad biochem thesis I'd spent a month on. I've never used it since.

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algoth1 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Open Office on Ubuntu 11.10 user here. I can confirm it froze frequently and you would lose everything. it was incredibly frustrating

	▲	jeffreygoesto 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Windows 95 Word was also bad. Some poor non-CS student brought his thesis to our computer pool and worked from Floppy with the only copy he had. Panic mode on when the backup file and original did not fit on that floppy any more and Word asked to swap disks for an empty one. We advised him to just continue swapping, eventually Word will have that backup file on the other disk. It worked after an ennerving amount of floppy swaps...