🧠 Throw it back!
What was your first job in tech?
Bonus points if it involved:
💾 Floppy disks
📞 Dial-up
💻 The blue screen of doom
Share your origin story below!
#FirstTechJob #TechThrowback #FromThenToNow
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I liked space, knew HTML, via dad and @SETIInstitute, I got a paid summer internship on an educational Mars CD-ROM @NASAAmes #FirstTechJob
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My #FirstTechJob was performing quality assurance on gambling machines for @aristocratslots. Nothing to be proud of.
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#FirstTechJob repairing Apple products, getting electrocuted with CRT monitors, installing RIP software on IRIX and Solaris.
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#FirstTechJob I repaired Macs at an Apple Service Center in 1994. Replaced a lot of logic boards.
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#FirstTechJob after school job working for #tulip (now #DanishCrown) maintaining PCs and writing #TurboPascal and #GWBASIC
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Worked in on-campus Apple store at my college (mid 90s) selling & supporting Apple computers. #FirstTechJob
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Writing the website for my school's summer programs by hand in Notepad, pre-CSS. Oh, the frames! #FirstTechJob
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My #FirstTechJob was writing WinRunner scripts to test IBM mainframe systems for Y2K compliance
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2nd #FirstTechJob involved refilling paper in computer labs, changing backup tapes, & moving memory boards between computers. Not glamorous!
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After doing my #FirstTechJob for a year, I applied to be one of the student sysadmins. It was a good job for learning computer+people stuff.
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My #FirstTechJob was as a computer lab attendant at college. I helped students print/do homework & emailed/called the sysadmins when needed.
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