I'm here wondering the same thing.
And where are all the "insensitive clod" and Cowboy Neal comments? Not to mention all the witty ones. Or the ones that were sometimes helpful and insightful?
I must be getting old.

I have that very same recollection. Luckily, it wasn't long until I discovered Total Commander (then Windows Commander). Before that I even used to use good old Norton Commander in a DOS window, just because it was more efficient to work with. While drag-and-drop is really handy for doing one simple operation, I prefer my dual panes whenever I need to copy more than a couple of files or just create a new shortcut on the desktop.

Is this what you're looking for? https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...

I'm pretty sure the market will adapt to whatever Netscape does, ensuring that things don't break.

FTFY

Yes!
However, it's actually misspelled in TFA, so as a direct quote it is actually correct. A little [sic] note from the editor wouldn't have hurt, though.

I believe it's pronounced "One hundred and one-ty third".

I beg to differ, you insensitive clod!
I am neither paranoid nor a "right wing nut job". Furthermore, I own not one gun and I am perfectly gruntled, thank you very much!

Slow download and installation using the official channels does not even begin to describe it. I did some work in Xcode this spring. Two and a half hours it took to install the bloody thing even with a quick and stable connection.
Two days later I had to install a new update to be able to continue my work. Thankfully that only took slightly more than an hour.
In hindsight it was a good thing that I didn't grab it from an unofficial source, but man, was it ever so tempting.

And I've had the reverse of your experience, which should show us how much anecdotal evidence is worth.
For what little it is worth though, I've had every single WD drive I've ever bought crash catastrophically. I've had only one Seagate drive fail and even then it failed gracefully enough to let me recover most of what was on it.

That was the story my mind leapt to as well.
It was initially written as a short story and later incorporated in "The Martian Cronicles". There was also a great dramatisation of it on Dimension X, which can be found on The Internet Archive.
It is hard to believe it was written in 1950. Sure our vision of what the tech looks like might have changed a bit, but not the essence of the story. It is a truly chilling vision and it looks increasingly plausible with every year.

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools, singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white,

Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.

--Sara Teasdale

And that's one reason I don't like the structure of *nix file systems.
One false move and you can erase everything you have plugged into your system, including, but not limited to, all your hard drives, external hard drives, network mounts, memory cards, USB sticks etc.
Sure, there's a good chance you can recover the lost data, but rebuilding a file system on one disk is painful enough, let alone all of your disks plus your NAS and it's even worse if just some of the files had their records deleted. At least in my experience.

Had I modpoints, I would mod you up. I did not LOL, but I did SPASS (Smile Pleasedly And Snicker Silently).

I, for one, welcomes our Chinese space overlords.

Battery door? Oh, that thing on the back of the phone. Isn't that that elusive back door I've been hearing so much about? :-p

This sound very much like a continuation and refinement of technology demonstrated a few years back that could identify mosquitoes and differentiate between males and females to only zap the females.
I remember seeing this TED talk some time back where they had constructed a working rig. At least working under laboratory conditions. Is that the precursor of this?