If you’re one of the many tax-procrastinating thrill seekers who waited until the last minute to get cracking, there’s a pretty good chance you spent most of that time cursing TurboTax’s powers that be. It might have even been enough to make you yearn for a simpler time, a time when we weren’t dependent on the capricious interent for our tax-filing needs. But this video detailing the various online tax prep packages of 1991 should put an end to any of that nonsense.
https://gizmodo.com/turbotax-went-down-at-a-kind-of-crucial-moment-and-didn-5994643
This episode of the fantastic and unintentionally hilarious Computer Chronicles helps you get your feet wet in the exciting, high-tech world of IRS e-filing. Sure, these programs essentially looked exactly the same as the paper IRS forms—but now they were on a screen. And purple. This was still a vast improvement, though, since moving to a computer meant that calculations were at least done for you. So go ahead and take a look at the tax filing of yore and be glad it’s not you. Unless you still haven’t finished your taxes, in which case, er, probably best to keep at that. [Mental Floss]
