As recently as the mid-2000's, my personal computer had virtually nothing in terms of development setup, except for a terminal and an IDE. Even our files were s

As recently as the mid-2000's, my personal computer had virtually nothing in terms of development setup, except for a terminal and an IDE. Even our files were stored remotely (although within a local datacenter, not on the Internet) and we either edited them directly on the terminal in VI, or in an IDE, with the repository working directory Samba-mapped. All builds, tests and deployments were on remote servers. Compared to those days, today's build and test setups seem nightmarishly complex.