I’ve been seeing these COBOL articles since the 2000s I believe. Since the '80s for me. And certainly the '90s, since these sort of zero-content articles were

I’ve been seeing these COBOL articles since the 2000s I believe. Since the '80s for me. And certainly the '90s, since these sort of zero-content articles were very popular in the runup to Y2K: "the entire world is going to end because there are no Cobol programmers anywhere in the world! Everyone panic!". It's still bullshit.