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Re:The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) by fsh on Monday February 23, 2026 @12:03PM (#47125078)
Considering the state of japanese IT, there is probably a person typing each reservation from the website into a 1980s mainframe.
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Re:The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) by z2 on Monday February 23, 2026 @02:30PM (#47127511)
After receiving the orders that were actually printed from an Internet Explorer 6 only website, and faxed over from another office before being re-scanned in along with a barcode that usually failed to make it over the fax, hence the need to hand-type things. True story (not for JR specifically, but circa 2013)
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