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Norton Commander Joins the Social Media Age
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Norton Commander Joins the Social Media Age

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A screenshot of a tweet from user Neven Mrgan (@mrgan) with the caption, 'oh cool, looks like Norton Commander is adding stories'. The image below is a photoshopped screenshot of Norton Commander, the classic, blue-themed, text-based file manager for DOS. The edit hilariously adds a 'stories' feature, similar to Instagram or Facebook, along the top of the application window. It shows avatars with initials (N.M., T.H., H.K., D.W., C.S.) under labels like 'YOUR STORY' and 'TIM'. The humor arises from the anachronistic absurdity of adding a modern, ephemeral social media feature to a piece of utilitarian, legacy software from the 1980s-90s. It's a sharp satire on the tech industry's trend of feature bloat and shoehorning popular features into every conceivable application, regardless of context or utility

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Norton Commander adding stories is the logical conclusion for an industry that thinks adding a YAML config to a toaster makes it 'cloud-native'
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Norton Commander adding stories is the logical conclusion for an industry that thinks adding a YAML config to a toaster makes it 'cloud-native'

  2. Anonymous

    Norton Commander just added Stories using 64 KB of EMS - remind me why our cloud-native dashboard needs two Kubernetes clusters to render a tooltip?

  3. Anonymous

    Nothing says 'agile transformation' quite like watching your enterprise finally sunset Norton Commander in 2017, only to discover someone's production ETL pipeline still depends on a batch file that calls NC.EXE with undocumented command-line flags that nobody remembers writing

  4. Anonymous

    The real joke here is that Norton Commander's UI has remained more consistent over decades than any modern JavaScript framework has over a single quarter - yet somehow we're the ones constantly 'innovating' by adding ephemeral content features nobody asked for. At least NC's function keys still work the same way they did in 1986, which is more than we can say for any API we shipped last year

  5. Anonymous

    We’ve reached peak OKR: my nc.ini now has an [engagement] section with stories_ttl=24, and even FAT16 is A/B‑testing my C:

  6. Anonymous

    Norton Commander with Stories: every tool becomes a social network eventually - DAUs measured as Daily Active Directories, and posts expire via AUTOEXEC.BAT’s “DEL /Q” after 24h

  7. Anonymous

    Norton Commander adds Stories: because every legacy monolith deserves 24-hour fame before the next 'dir' command forgets it exists

  8. @Assarbad 2y

    Are they as annoying though?

    1. @RiedleroD 2y

      every time a new one pops up, the BEL character gets printed

      1. @SamsonovAnton 2y

        Every time a directory with either • DESCRIPT.ION • FILE_ID.DIZ • README • *.NFO is opened.

        1. @RiedleroD 2y

          .DIZ nuts

          1. @endisn16h 2y

            bruh

      2. @QutePoet 2y

        On printer, I hope.

        1. @RiedleroD 2y

          ofc

  9. @callofvoid0 2y

    wtf

  10. @sylfn 2y

    Please use Englisg in this chat

    1. dev_meme 2y

      That message was just a spammy one 🙁

      1. @sylfn 2y

        Oh.

  11. Deleted Account 2y

    zkbridge gives 1 free pandra https://zkbridgenft.net/

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