In my day, we used to just insert the server into the rack, plug it into the network, terminal into it and configure it. I'm not being sarcastic here. There was

In my day, we used to just insert the server into the rack, plug it into the network, terminal into it and configure it. I'm not being sarcastic here. There was a clear correspondence between what we were doing and what it meant for the infrastructure. Now there are so many layers of abstractions that we've basically forgotten it's all just CPUs, hard disks, memory modules and network connections.