Filing Your Taxes Online Was Even More Terrible in 1991

If you ’re one of the many tax - procrastinating thrill seekers who await until the last minute to get crack , there ’s a pretty good chance you spent most of that timecursing TurboTax ’s powerfulness that be . It might have even been enough to make you hanker for a simpler time , a time when we were n’t dependent on the capricious interent for our taxation - filing needs . But this video detailing the various on-line tax prep software system of 1991 should put an last to any of that gimcrackery .

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This episode of the fantastic and unintentionally hilarious Computer Chronicles helps you get your feet wet in the exciting , mellow - technical school world of IRS e - filing . sure enough , these programs essentially looked exactly the same as the composition IRS forms — but now they were on a filmdom . And purpleness . This was still a huge improvement , though , since move to a computer signify that computation were at least done for you . So go onwards and take a look at the tax filing of yore and be glad it ’s not you . Unless you still have n’t finished your taxes , in which case , er , in all likelihood best to keep at that . [ Mental Floss ]