It's interesting (to me at least) how much of the ideas they had back then are still waiting to be expounded on, they (and people like them) did the foundationa

It's interesting (to me at least) how much of the ideas they had back then are still waiting to be expounded on, they (and people like them) did the foundational work we still build new things on now, I read a book (I wish I could remember the title) about the architecture of the 2nd and 3rd generations of IBM's mainframes as they battled with the problem of "how do we keep the same software running on different hardware" and came up with virtualisation etc. I wonder how many dusty copies of papers sat in university libraries contain ideas that brushed up and given a new coat of paint would be considered revolutionary. The other side of it is I still use stuff those guys wrote every day, while typing this I switched a bash terminal to run an install command using a program that is pretty much identical (if a superset) of a program written in 1977, 3 years before I was born.