30 years ago was a great time, software development was really ramping up. The internet was like a "secret" which not many people knew about, dominated by ftp

30 years ago was a great time, software development was really ramping up. The internet was like a "secret" which not many people knew about, dominated by ftp / usenet / irc/ ftp / gopher / telnet / email. Books and magazines were a BIG thing in the world of software development, they were your main sources of information. Processes were a mixed bag of things, mostly based around waterfall type ideas but most places just did things ad hoc. OO was in its infancy. There was a lot of thinking around "modelling" as a way to create software instead of code. There was a lot of influence from structured programming. We were on the borderlines between DOS and windows, so a lot of stuff was just single threaded programs. There was still a lot of the cool 80s computers around.. amigas, ataris, etc. Apple was off on the side doing its own things as it always has, mostly the thing you associated with it was desktop publishing. Pay is probably better now, I think, work life balance is the same if you go into a workplace, and better if you work from home. While the 80s/90s was fun and exciting, things are really good now.