From another early programmer, user aRoseBy :. In the late s … I was working as a COBOL programmer in a big insurance company, writing billing and accounting programs.
I would write lines of code on coding sheets: these were pages of graph paper, twice as wide as long. I would write a program and drop the coding sheets in the inbox in the keypunch room. The keypunch girls yes, all young women would copy the program, one line at a time, to a stack of IBM cards. The cards were bound up in a rubber band, labelled, and put in a tray to be brought in the computer room. The computer ran 24 hours a day, 5 days a week. User bluedunkie , on working in sales:.
I also had to make sure I had my 10 pence coins for making phone calls, which I carried in a sock. We lived in phone boxes. Remember when there was no direct deposit? Suego26 does:. I used to do payroll for a linen cleaning company of about employees. There used to be things called books , specifically encyclopedias, buildings with books called a library , and for those more tech-savvy there was the mighty Encarta ' Those were dark times when you needed to actually search, and read, through reams of text for the information you're after.
How things have changed. Of course, it had its benefits. It would take an equally incredible amount of effort for someone to check any statements of fact if not common knowledge - which was handy at times.
Before the internet, many jobs taken for granted today didn't exist. If you'd mentioned you were a web designer, for example, people would look at you strangely. After all, the only things that 'design' webs are spiders right? Life after the internet would never be the same again. Office life before the internet was a lot harder than today. If you wanted to look at cute cat pictures, and still look like you were working, you had a tough time.
Activities, like staring out the window, or those 'inspirational' posters was a much riskier way to waste time in the office. Today, you can check out that latest funny meme or watch videos on YouTube whilst appearing to be hard at work.
Before the internet, if you wanted to put up some information for everyone to see you actually needed to physically stick something to a wall. Yes, a hardcopy post needed to be printed, carried somewhere, and stuck to a noticeboard, wall, or another surface. However, this didn't mean that you wouldn't receive some less than favorable feedback from some people — just like today.
Oftentimes other nefarious members of the public could, and often would, deface you finely crafted notice, or scrawl childish imagery on it. When mobile phones have first released, the idea that you could play games on them was unthinkable. But when the first Nokia came with games like "Snake", it would change the world of gaming forever. Today, with games like World of Tanks , it is amazing to think people before the internet could actually glean enjoyment out of them.
The post-internet generations will never understand the satisfaction of playing them — a very real shame. Before the internet, people used to have to research stuff in books. But these strange objects could also be used for entertainment. Yes, that's right, people used to actually read books for exposure to immersive storylines and fantasy worlds. Companies may also receive more consumer feedback through these electronic communication methods.
Technology also improves inter-office communication as well. For example, social intranet software gives employees a centralizes portal to access and update internal documents and contracts and relay relevant data to other departments instantly. These methods also help companies reach consumers through mobile devices in a real-time format. Small businesses can increase their employees' productivity through the use of technology. Computer programs and business software usually allow employees to process more information than manual methods.
Business owners can also implement business technology to reduce the amount of human labor in business functions. This allows small businesses to avoid paying labor costs along with employee benefits. Even fundamental business tech can have a major impact on employee performance. For example, by placing employee-performance appraisal information in an online framework, supervisors can easily create measurable goals for their employees to reach and sustain company objectives.
Business owners may also choose to expand operations using technology rather than employees if the technology will provide better production output.
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