Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen

LOL - didn’t expect that reference, but it’s perfect :) And for anyone that didn’t get it, this video will make your day [VIDEO]

I'm strongly urged to one-up you (because I could, believe me) but what's the point? You're either going to A) Buck up, or B) Get some Xanax. That's about it. [VIDEO]

3 baud? Luxury. We had 1 baud and we kept it in a box in the middle of the road. Every day we'd get up, clean the box, read the bit, and then go to the factory to work for 20 hours. And when we got home every night our father would cut us with a knife. [VIDEO] Merry Christmas!

I'm sorry, I know this is a serious subject but this thread reminds me of this Monty Python sketch: [VIDEO]

If you wanted to know something, there was no Google or Wikipedia. You might be able to find out a basic fact if you had a set of encyclopedias. But most information, from important stuff to basic trivia ("who was in that movie?") was not available unless you had a reference book or went to the library and really searched. Rumors, lies, media manipulation, thwarted by a few seconds of research. If more people bothered, it would be a better world. Off topic, but obligatory Monty Python piece [VIDEO]

Luxury! I used to have to snip endless chads out of punched cards to represent the very zeroes and ones of the program i was writing! Thanks to [VIDEO]

Don't be afraid to discount some of those stories as bravado and self-aggrandizing reports. (see: the Four Yorkshiremen [VIDEO] )

That's complete crap and merely a manifestation of "Rosy Retrospection" ( [LINK] ). Monty Python made fun of this "in my time, you see" bullshit with the Four Yorkshiremen skit ( [VIDEO] ). Woody Allen's movie Midnight in Paris did the same ( [LINK] ). The programmers before us were the exact same as the programmers of today and they will be the exact same as the one's that come after us. The only difference between them is whose shoulders they stood upon and what they were be able to do using the tools at hand. Programmers of the 60s were happy just to get things to add up. The guys in the 80s squealed with glee at GUIs. The guys in the 90s made the internet what it is today. And the guys of the 2010s will bring AI and robotics into the main stream. Everyone glues things together - it's how creation works ( [LINK] ). The only difference between generations is the things you have available to glue together. Sometimes you glue together a stick and a rock to make a spear, and other times you glue together a machine gun, a camera, and a computer. Either way - same people, different situations.