> I fail to see the relevance of comparing an opinion from 20 years ago to a product that didn’t even exist And why not? The mythical man-month is getting on

> I fail to see the relevance of comparing an opinion from 20 years ago to a product that didn’t even exist And why not? The mythical man-month is getting on 50 years old now and still relevant. > Google is literally 10x beyond any software company that existed in the 90s in terms of resources both human and financial That is fair. (And, as per a recent HN post, most should strive not to do what google does, since most don't have to crawl the entire web.)