When you read something like Programming Pearls by Jon Bently, it's startling how similar the ye old problems were to today. For example, his article might men

When you read something like Programming Pearls by Jon Bently, it's startling how similar the ye old problems were to today. For example, his article might mention, "So, we built a system that had to store geographical data by latitude and longitude, and we only had blah blah of memory....". The machines have changed but, remarkably, the root problems are the same.