With programming pop culture being so large today, why aren't the greybeards (and/or their ideas) a larger part of it? I would love to be reading more oldschoo

With programming pop culture being so large today, why aren't the greybeards (and/or their ideas) a larger part of it? I would love to be reading more oldschool stuff on sites like this, but "ruby + cloud" style stuff is news. And for me, at least to some degree, what I read is what I use.