I sometimes got to take the backup tapes to the bank vault. That was fun. SDLC was the dial up, had to set that up for an AS/400 for various things, including downloading patches from IBM.
When I had my first service released to live at AOL, in 1997, they gave me a pager and said welcome to operations. I was so pleased with myself. We did have remote work by 97 or 98 tho, tho mostly just while cranking out code, then you c9me in to get your next project.
AOL had a nice rhythm of projects were in the three month range from design to deployment. You saw your work used at scale but had time to do it well.
When I had my first service released to live at AOL, in 1997, they gave me a pager and said welcome to operations. I was so pleased with myself. We did have remote work by 97 or 98 tho, tho mostly just while cranking out code, then you c9me in to get your next project.
AOL had a nice rhythm of projects were in the three month range from design to deployment. You saw your work used at scale but had time to do it well.