The other thing about coding back in those days is, if you got stuck, there was no stack overflow. You had to figure it out yourself or maybe ask a small grpup

The other thing about coding back in those days is, if you got stuck, there was no stack overflow. You had to figure it out yourself or maybe ask a small grpup of people on a BBS or at a user group. Also, there was hardly any open source so things that seem trivial now like persistance or fast data structures were considerable efforts.