> The people who don't learn from the past are usually the people who aren't all that interested in learning how things work, learning the lessons people and co

> The people who don't learn from the past are usually the people who aren't all that interested in learning how things work, learning the lessons people and companies made in the past, and applying those lessons to today and the future. No, actually, I do know how things work. The problem for you is that the Internet is there now and the whole world is on it, to a first approximation. Knowing what the Internet designers did wrong (btw, the internet-history mailing list does this subject regularly) doesn't help us much, because we're not going to be doing it again. As for old hardware: right on. If it works, keep using it.