Eh, 2006 was right on the cusp of the 32-bit/64-bit flip. 32-bit was still pretty common, but my first task at my first job that year was migrating a search ap

Eh, 2006 was right on the cusp of the 32-bit/64-bit flip. 32-bit was still pretty common, but my first task at my first job that year was migrating a search app to compile as a 64-bit binary, for servers that had (I believe) 8GB. They were good-sized servers for the time, but not particularly exotic, commodity hardware at a startup.