I can't believe this happened. I, Wayd Wats, winner of the hallowed egg, have invented a machine. The most amazing, best machine in the world.
I invented a time machine.
Now, with this machine, I can go to any time. So I decided to go to 1980, and really live the 80s, just as my hero, JDH, had.
So I put in 1/1/1980 into the time machine.
But I landed... in 2016.
I don't know how this happened, but I landed in 2016. Luckily, I do still have the time machine with me, so I can go back at any time. But let's see what it's like here!
I first started by trying to boot up my oasis consol. The oasis turned out to be a very disappointing place. Just a few hundred planets, and no jobs at all. I decided that if I wanted to stay and explore, I would need to get a real world job.
Mrs. G had told me that microsoft was one of the biggest technology companies in the 1980s. After going on the internet, through a 2 dimensional display, I discoverred that it was the same in 2016. It had tons of employees, and it was supposed to "empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more." I decided that it seemed like a fun place to work.
Luckily, I knew enough programming to land a job as a programmer in a small team. I flew out to Washington, and landed at the seattle-takoma international airport. It was nothing like the jet that Og had charted for aech and me when we were to go to his home. It was crammed with people.
When I arrived for my first day of work, the first thing that caught my eye was the refridgerator full of free soda! I couldn't believe it; it was everywhere!
The second thing I couldn't believe was how much harder it was to program in the real world, rather than the oasis. I had to "check in" my code, where it would go into a repository with thousands of other programmers' code. Nothing ever stayed in sync. I couldn't even program what I wanted!
Instead of programming games, they had me programming the little icons, which we nowadays take for granted. My whole job would be to make sure that the buttons across the bottom of the little window that users could open were working correctly. After I did it once, someone would add a change to some other part, and I'd have to change my code again. It was really annoying.
And I couldn't even do it the way "I" wanted!
Everything I was tasked with programming came from a document, called a "spec". They told me what, and how to program. After my first month, I quit. The free sodas were nice, but I decided that I didn't want my life dictated by the huge, evil IOI of the day, and went back to my own time.
