Imagine explaining in-vehicle-mounted devices which play sound recordings on giant vinyl discs to people from the 2030s.

https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/obsolete-car-audio-part-2/

I landed in the middle. SCCS was too old, CVS was too new.

https://www.gnu.org/software/rcs/

But, back then, I had also been forced to use CMVC.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Configuration_Management_Version_Control

An oldie but a goodie:

https://wtfqrcodes.tumblr.com/

I’m saying this in the terms of the tabletop role playing game setting Transhuman Space but…

Your post reminded me that I’d like a series of either mysteries or maybe noire detective stories with infomorphs running in cybershells used for blue collar labor like janitorial services on a big belter trading port.