So… Here I am, setting up a new dev box. I have installed VS2008 and start the process of applying SP1. (Slow at best.)

I left it to do its thing and went on to do other work.

When I checked on the progress, I noticed something from the Wayback Machine.

In the lower right hand corner, just below the “Installer Progress” bar, is an old fashioned spinning line! For those of you who are too young to know what that is; back in the old days, we used to use the “|”, “/”, “-“ and “\” to show the user that the program was still running. Similar to the AJAX process indicators.

Holy cow – Do I feel old!