It's still amazing, considering that there was no networking at the time. Today, a conferencing program would be able to take advantage of phenomenal networking

It's still amazing, considering that there was no networking at the time. Today, a conferencing program would be able to take advantage of phenomenal networking infrastructure, yet instead of multi-thousand, it would be multi-million lines, and still an absolute nightmare. Some sort of Parkinson's law applies: The code expands until it becomes unmanageable. When AI can write code for itself, it will be trillions of lines.