Wow, Japan is so far ahead of other Industrial Countries and going strong into the 21th century! Recently the Deutsche Bahn AG in cooperation with Siemens (German Railway) advertised a position for a system administrator for Windows 3.11
Sounds one of those bullshit articles. Pretty much every shop in Japan stopped selling FD in 00s.
1900 government procedure required physical media “including” FD.
Japan! Living in the year 2000 since 1980.
Maybe other countries do too, but Japan definitely has a thing for “physical storage media.”
When I got a PhD from a Japanese uni, I had to save my dissertation to a “physical storage media” (I chose USB; floppy disc or CD-ROM were also options) and *send it by post* to the university library.
Would make sense if this was some top-secret stuff. But then the uni…uploaded the document to an online repository that anyone can access. It made no sense to me. Still doesn’t.
Japan is amazingly anachronistic at times.
They have cutting edge technology like robotics and far reaching automation, yet also use a lot of fax machines.
And they also require the use of a stamp instead of a signature. Like, a metal or wood rod with your name on it that you wet on an inkpad and use to sign everything from legal contracts to the delivery slip of the package you ordered.
Also, less than 40% of (small) businesses like restaurants accept digital payment, with most accepting only cash.
The U.S. managed its nuclear weapons on floppy disks until around 2019. People always make fun of how behind Japan is, but floppy disks are still used in many countries. It’s like a meme that only Japan still uses floppy disks and fax machines.
Finally moved to CD.
You’d be surprised at how much the world still relies on outdated tech. I’ve worked in IT several industries (hospitals, housing, tech, etc) and companies are still using software that only runs on Windows 95, for example. There are payment systems that require dial up connections to make payments, and to send cheques via fax. A HUGE company I worked at in Canada & North America had a program that a core part of the business relied on which was programmed by one guy in 1992, he was the only person who really knew the ins and outs of it, it required so many weird and nonsensical command inputs and wouldn’t run on computers with certain system configurations. I’ve had to work out how to fix things that were considered old in the 90s. Was kinda fun playing around with old computers though.
Pretty positive we just delivered a software update to JAL where they demanded CDs. But it is a step up from floppies.
I’m looking forward to the insane zenkaku/hankaku BS to go away as well as the requirement to make complex passwords with only basic ASCII characters.
It was as recent as 6 years ago that a job had me save to floppy disk.
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Y2K’s feelings are gonna be hurt big time.🙃
First the floppies, next the faxes
Wow, Japan is so far ahead of other Industrial Countries and going strong into the 21th century! Recently the Deutsche Bahn AG in cooperation with Siemens (German Railway) advertised a position for a system administrator for Windows 3.11
[If you need a Job, Link in German](https://www.t-online.de/digital/aktuelles/id_100331850/deutsche-bahn-administrator-fuer-windows-3-11-gesucht.html)
Sounds one of those bullshit articles. Pretty much every shop in Japan stopped selling FD in 00s.
1900 government procedure required physical media “including” FD.
Japan! Living in the year 2000 since 1980.
Maybe other countries do too, but Japan definitely has a thing for “physical storage media.”
When I got a PhD from a Japanese uni, I had to save my dissertation to a “physical storage media” (I chose USB; floppy disc or CD-ROM were also options) and *send it by post* to the university library.
Would make sense if this was some top-secret stuff. But then the uni…uploaded the document to an online repository that anyone can access. It made no sense to me. Still doesn’t.
Japan is amazingly anachronistic at times.
They have cutting edge technology like robotics and far reaching automation, yet also use a lot of fax machines.
And they also require the use of a stamp instead of a signature. Like, a metal or wood rod with your name on it that you wet on an inkpad and use to sign everything from legal contracts to the delivery slip of the package you ordered.
Also, less than 40% of (small) businesses like restaurants accept digital payment, with most accepting only cash.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy-disks.html
The U.S. managed its nuclear weapons on floppy disks until around 2019.
People always make fun of how behind Japan is, but floppy disks are still used in many countries. It’s like a meme that only Japan still uses floppy disks and fax machines.
Finally moved to CD.
You’d be surprised at how much the world still relies on outdated tech. I’ve worked in IT several industries (hospitals, housing, tech, etc) and companies are still using software that only runs on Windows 95, for example. There are payment systems that require dial up connections to make payments, and to send cheques via fax. A HUGE company I worked at in Canada & North America had a program that a core part of the business relied on which was programmed by one guy in 1992, he was the only person who really knew the ins and outs of it, it required so many weird and nonsensical command inputs and wouldn’t run on computers with certain system configurations. I’ve had to work out how to fix things that were considered old in the 90s. Was kinda fun playing around with old computers though.
Pretty positive we just delivered a software update to JAL where they demanded CDs. But it is a step up from floppies.
I’m looking forward to the insane zenkaku/hankaku BS to go away as well as the requirement to make complex passwords with only basic ASCII characters.
It was as recent as 6 years ago that a job had me save to floppy disk.