Old Days 2
Old Days 2
[In a slim panel, Cueball and Hairbun are walking together to the right. Hairbun has her palm raised.] Cueball: What was the Internet like in the olden days, for a developer? Hairbun: Oh, things were very different.
[Cueball and Hairbun have stopped walking. Zoomed in on Hairbun.] Hairbun: The cloud was a lot smaller. It was called a "mainframe" and it was near Sacramento. Hairbun: It was on the state landline, so the whole industry paused when the governor had to make a phone call.
[Zoomed back out. Hairbun has her palm raised.] Hairbun: There was no memory protection. If you wanted to write to an address, you would call around to ask whether anyone else was using it. Hairbun: Often Bill Gates would say he was, even when he wasn't. That's how Microsoft got its early foothold. Cueball: Wow.
[Zoomed back in Hairbun. Cueball responds off-screen.] Hairbun: "Git" was originally a van that circled around gathering data tapes to copy and distribute. We all took turns driving it. Hairbun: When you saw it coming you'd blow an air horn to request that it pull over. Hairbun: That's where "pull request" came from. Cueball (off-screen): Oh, neat!
[Cueball and Hairbun continue walking to the right. Hairbun has her palm raised.] Hairbun: Before terminals, we all used punch cards, which were originally developed to control looms. Hairbun: Early mainframes would produce a sweater each time you ran your code. Hairbun: Eventually we got them to stop. We had enough sweaters.

In this sequel to 1755: Old Days , which was released more than 3.5 years ago, the conversation continues, as if no time has passed, between (young) Cueball and (old) Hairbun about computer programming in the past. As in the first comic in this series , Cueball, having only a faint idea of just how difficult and byzantine programming was "in the old days", asks Hairbun to enlighten him on the specifics. Hairbun promptly seizes the opportunity to screw with his head.
The new claims:
[In a slim panel, Cueball and Hairbun are walking together to the right. Hairbun has her palm raised.] Cueball: What was the Internet like in the olden days, for a developer? Hairbun: Oh, things were very different.
[Cueball and Hairbun have stopped walking. Zoomed in on Hairbun.] Hairbun: The cloud was a lot smaller. It was called a "mainframe" and it was near Sacramento. Hairbun: It was on the state landline, so the whole industry paused when the governor had to make a phone call.
[Zoomed back out. Hairbun has her palm raised.] Hairbun: There was no memory protection. If you wanted to write to an address, you would call around to ask whether anyone else was using it. Hairbun: Often Bill Gates would say he was, even when he wasn't. That's how Microsoft got its early foothold. Cueball: Wow.
[Zoomed back in Hairbun. Cueball responds off-screen.] Hairbun: "Git" was originally a van that circled around gathering data tapes to copy and distribute. We all took turns driving it. Hairbun: When you saw it coming you'd blow an air horn to request that it pull over. Hairbun: That's where "pull request" came from. Cueball (off-screen): Oh, neat!
[Cueball and Hairbun continue walking to the right. Hairbun has her palm raised.] Hairbun: Before terminals, we all used punch cards, which were originally developed to control looms. Hairbun: Early mainframes would produce a sweater each time you ran your code. Hairbun: Eventually we got them to stop. We had enough sweaters.
