You know you have been in the IT business too long when:

* You hand somebody a 3.5" diskette and they roll their eyes
** Or, somebody hands you a diskette and you don't think twice about it...until you actually try to insert it.

* You like the DOS prompt over Windows Explorer

* You talk about how your screwy cousin needs "serious debugging".

* You realize the new IT fads look like the old ones renamed, repackaged, and re-buzzworded.

* Everybody asks, "why aren't you in management yet?"
** Extra points if you pull out a thumbdrive with the answer in PDF.
** Triple points if you pull out a floppy with the answer in Word-Perfect.

* You can't learn new languages because you keep mixing up the new function/method names with all the other 30 languages you know with similar names or concepts.

* Instead of answering "yes" to questions, you answer with "Is a nybble four bits?"

* You refer to the excess of visiting relatives as a Denial Of Service Attack on your food and favorite chair.

* You revel in finding the flaws in video games - so you can gain insight into how they were written.

* You forget what the sun looks like. ''The what? Oh, you mean that old unix workstation in the corner?''
** Revision: You interpret "Get some sun" differently than everybody else.

* You think of waking up as "power on", coffee as "bootup", talking to co-workers as "network startup", and lunch as "loading data".
** Extra points if you install Linux on your coffee pot or shaver after discovering they have an ARM microprocessor.

* You find jokes about hex conversion funny.
** or hexually stimulating.
** is that being "binary-curious"?

* You consider two couples and a fifth person at dinner as "an off by one error"
** Or you call the fifth person the "parity bit".

* You ever need to say "I'd explain it, but I'd totally nerd out and bore you".

* You tell somebody "It allowed me to kill 1.8 birds with 1 stone".

* You call your wife's busybody friends "brain malware conduits".

* You have a file in your office relating to a major network procurement bid in 1985. 
** ''True in my case I have it here'' -- JohnFletcher

* You have memory cards from a Honeywell 316 and can remember it running.
** ''Also true in my case, I also have some actual blank 80 column cards.'' -- JohnFletcher

* You keep a slide rule in the office as a backup processor.
** ''I show mine to my current students who have no idea what it is.'' -- JohnFletcher
** Extra points for an abacus.

* Substantial portions of your last 4 home folders are contained in an ever-deepening hierarchy under your current one. ~/old_documents/backup_transfer/files_from_old_computer/...
** ''Dontcha mean "docs/black&white_docs/iron_plate_docs/bronze_docs/cave_docs/australopithecus_docs" ?''

* You think in COBOL when you write Python and in Python when you write COBOL.

* You are contemplating writing a paper on the history of computers in the organisation over the last 40 years.
** ''and can do this from personal knowledge of using them in my case.'' -- JohnFletcher
** {And turning the collection in your garage into a museum.}
*** Or donated your 8" disk drive to a museum.
*** {Extra point if you ask for it back to retrieve some data}
*** {Double points if you mistake the museum for a store.}
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