I can go back 26 years. Sorry. It was a mixture of VGA CRTs and VT220's. I just missed token ring, New graduate, started in Australia at $35k. That's about

I can go back 26 years. Sorry. It was a mixture of VGA CRTs and VT220's. I just missed token ring, New graduate, started in Australia at $35k. That's about $65k in current dollars. No stock, maybe a bonus. Manuals were binders or printed books. Builds were managed by the "Configuration Manager", and coordinated nightly. The languages were C, Ada, Assembly. The network was BNC cables. Design reviews were a thing, code walk throughs were a thing. People were trying to work out how to apply UML. Printers will still a mix of dot matrix and lasers. Design patterns I think, had just become a thing. Work life balance was okay. Everything was waterfall, so you ended up in death marches semi-regularly. Linux was just ascending, but big-iron Unixen ruled the dev environment. Microsoft was just trying to work out itself (Microsoft Mail, Lotus 123, Domino)