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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

I had a job like that back in the day (circa 2000). I remember one stretch where for a solid month around 50 developers did nothing but call in to Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? to try to become a contestant. Ironically, one web app I wrote for them (with Visual Basic and "Classic" ASP) is still in use today -- and it was a front end for a mainframe system that dated to the 1980s, which means that's still up and running as well.