Four decades later, the same bugs keep popping up
Retired programmer pilot fish gets an email from his doctor's office offering a way to save time at his next appointment: Fill in a form online to speed up the check-in process.
And fish likes the idea. "I'm now 75 years old, and my handwriting suffers quite a lot from age and illness," he says. "I clicked on the link and entered the required data in all the applicable fields. But when I clicked the 'Submit' button, I got an error message that said there was invalid data in a field."
OK, fish thinks, maybe I hit a wrong key. He goes over the form and doesn't see any problems, but he re-enters some data just in case.
Result: the same error message -- with no indication of which field contains bad data.
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