Yeah, I feel like there was a golden age between 1975 and 1985, and then things got stale. Things started picking up around Linux time, though that age of good

Yeah, I feel like there was a golden age between 1975 and 1985, and then things got stale. Things started picking up around Linux time, though that age of goodness started getting stale around 2006 (maybe because linux started to get commercialized? Or maybe because everyone started getting interested in handheld devices for their 'fun' programming?)