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  • Star Trek came up with some workarounds/explanations for things they did due to budget or teck limitations. The transporters so they didn't need to shuttle down, artificial gravity, universal translator and the the story line about the parent species that seeded humanoids on many planets (earth, vulcan, etc).

    They would also show 'surveillance video' from time to time when the plot needed it, but it never looked like a surveillance cam took it.

  • Micromanagement to speed up product release date. Daily meeting and status reports, work breakout categories such as ‘code design’, ‘code development’, ‘code documentation’, etc,etc (flash back gif of Apache helicopters flying over a jungle

  • I worked at a company pre-internet that had an Arpanet connection. I started working there as a Cobol programmer and thought this was magic. I later got to set up a dial -up uucp network to customer sites. I think I still have some 300 baud rabbit ears I used to monitor systems from home.