A little past 50 here. I can relate. Yet some things have barely changed. Beyond 25 years ago it was Solaris or HPUX, using C, talking TCP/IP and mucking about

A little past 50 here. I can relate. Yet some things have barely changed. Beyond 25 years ago it was Solaris or HPUX, using C, talking TCP/IP and mucking about with SQL. Some of us were sad at SVR4 as we still preferred the BSD view of things. Running Unix and 10 terminals on some 680x0, learning to get efficient in vi. Some preferred emacs. I was excited for the future, especially of hardware and the OS, as I'd seen it on the Amiga. I'd seen some of the crazy ideas being thought about, like we might have this mad thing called VR. That looks interesting. It's insanely expensive and made me feel a bit seasick, but maybe it'll be the cool fad of of 1990. We'll see. Fast forward to today. Oh. Well there's a lot more switches, and security has changed some things, desktops have pushed ideas because they think they're phones, but I'd never have conceived how similar so much would be. BSD isn't forgotten, mysql grew up and then some. Emacs and vi are still be being discussed. Why aren't old programmers more popular? I'm still interested in hip new things. I'm losing some enthusiasm though. There's an increasing number I haven't got to, as there's just too many of them. Too much is just fashion. So often I'm struck by how $NEW_THING gives something, but takes something or adds needless complexity, yet manages to be a variation on an aging theme. In frameworks the best $NEW_THING fashion changes hourly. Leaves me rather disappointed, but I'm still looking. And hoping.