Comment by horsawlarway

I know this gets a lot of flak because it ended up being obviously incorrect for consumer markets.

But the under-reported corellary of this is that a TON of industries essentially operate on hardware right out of that time period (or slightly after, circa 2000s)

banking

Insurance

Healthcare

Gov

retail

Transportation

etc...

Hell, I was writing code to run on IBMs Z/arch as recently as 2021 for banks with mainframes deployed around 2004. They were just then finally considering an upgrade to the later models.