Facebook Forces Employees to Connect to the Net Like It's 1999

2G or not 2G? There is no question!

Anyone remember the days when you were giddy to rush to the mailbox to see a colorful package that read “America Online 250 Free Hours”?

It was Christmas every day when AOL sent those free CD-ROMs because you knew you were about to have a great time in any one of the random 73 chat rooms you bookmarked. Of course, you had to fight through banal logging-in and dialing-in static frenzy, until you heard those infamous words: “You’ve Got Mail!”

Those were the days, amirite?

While some of you may be shaking your head, thinking the writer of this story is half-baked out of his mind, the others are vigorously nodding up and down, having a flashback of yelling down the hall, “Get off the phone! I’m trying to get online!”

Mark Zuckerberg and his cracked crew of hoodie-adorned, facially coiffed hipsters at Facebook want us to harken back to the days of inferior...

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