Didn't Cisco just lay off 300+ people a couple days ago?

Too obvious?

. . .There's a group of aliens laughing so hard they're passing out.

Granted, I'm old.

. . .When it will become commercially viable to mine landfills.

In 3-2-1

Microsoft OS releases are kinda like Star Trek movies - you always need to skip a release or two. DOS 2.1. Solid and stable. Don't bother with anything subsequent until DOS 6. Does anyone remember a version of Windows prior to 3.1? I sure don't. NT 3.51 was my first acquaintance, but NT 4.0 was basically VMS with a GUI - that's what made it great. 95 was an achievement, providing a structure for development and basically automating hardware driver installation. Betting on its development was bold - even for a company the size and sway of Microsoft. Anyone who claims to appreciate open architecture should salute this as its genesis in the common market. 98 and ME? Meh. 2000, which essentially married the vision of 95 to the robustness of NT was where the bet paid off. I still love the 2000 suite. XP SP2 was just dreadful. A firewall that just wouldn't work and blocked access to everything by default. Alternately, SP3 was so good MS had to support it until 2014 - an exceptional lifespan for a desktop OS. Hell, there's something like 1% of active computers STILL running it today. Vista was a hog, no ifs, ands, or buts. 7 was great, 8 was "why?", and 10 has proven pretty darn good. Only installed 11 the other night, the jury's out.

Reminiscent of the early days of antivirus software.

I know it's of no help and likely a source of harm, but isn't part of the hilarity situations in which a painful doofus confuses satire with reality? It will be even more rich when they ignore the tiny tag.

I remember going there back in the day - what a pit! A tilt-up concrete cavern no windows and literally dozens of yards of junk food lining the queue to the registers. Bought my first raw processors there out of a bin, they came stacked in a static resistant, form-fitting plastic tube. Built me a couple dozen white box PC's out of there - some of them not bad. Good times.

To think that after almost 43 years it's only traveled 17.5 light hours.