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Time Travel of a ’90s Software Developer to Present Day
Dave, with his messy mop of hair and faded band tees, was the epitome of the ’90s coder stereotype. He waited with bated breath each month for the thud of his nerdy computer magazine landing on his doorstep. This relic of print was his lifeline to the digital frontier, a compass in the ever-evolving tech jungle. He had plunged headfirst into this world, inspired by the cinematic brilliance of “War Games” that he had chanced upon during a late-night movie binge with his old man. He still chuckles thinking about how that random movie night might’ve just charted the course of his life.
One gloomy afternoon, as Dave was drooling over the specs of the brand-new Pentium III (a beastly 1.13 GHz powerhouse) in his treasured magazine, his ancient CRT monitor started having a disco of its own. The usual thump on its side, which usually did the trick, was interrupted by a blinding flash. When the spots cleared from his eyes, Dave found himself in a 2023 office that looked straight out of Star Trek. Futuristic desks display as thin as paper boasting mind-boggling resolutions, and oddly, not a CD or magazine stack in sight. Glancing at a computer on a nearby desk, he almost choked on his spit. Its specs made his cherished Pentium III…
