we used to have to impress govt ministers who would visit so we put up big animated maps of weather patterns and a google maps overlay with ships on them. one asked if we could zoom in and see the sailors.
The other flashy stuff is things like Pew-Pew maps, graphics that look pretty but serve no purpose, and other such things that blink, flash, and provide absolutely no useful information.
It's so funny to think that every limp dick who's giving you shit for destroying those old devices has jerked off to that one scene in Office Space at least once in their life.
I like my flashy monitoring; mostly for the quick time zoom abilities that sync everything to the same time frame. Granted, it's not expensive vendor flashy, just web apps have come a long way flashy.
I know the feeling - back in the VW/Porsche mechanic days, we were so done one Friday we took an old bug, using only hammers, removed the engine, then took it apart down to the crank. V. cathartic
Ooooh, we used to have to cover everything with black drapes when Russians came round. By the end, they were just standing in a hallway filled with black drapes.
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What kind of other flashy stuff?