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> He does a disservice to other "older" developers and technology buffs, as not all of us want to regale you with tales of the old days...

Once upon a time, we enjoyed exchanging stories as a way of sharing and building on the wisdom learned from hard knocks, bootstrapping one another. Pretty sure that's how civilization progresses.




It's also how civilization stagnates. Stories have value, but not to diminish someone else's achievement or to argue against progress.




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