Nothing is permanent. I still remember the time when I got one of my first jobs for something like $30/mo. only to have an access to personal computer. I rememb

Nothing is permanent. I still remember the time when I got one of my first jobs for something like $30/mo. only to have an access to personal computer. I remember the first i486 PCs running SCO Open Server (what a mess!) and Informix, I remember FreeBSD 1.x.x and so on. It was the golden times. Everyone on that field was a hacker. There was no such thing as apt-get or yum which were downgraded sysadmin's level to almost zero. There were even no ./configure && make && make install mantra and you were required to understand what you were doing and why. But today IT is a mainstream and even in decline. It lost its novelty and romance decade ago, and people involved in it nowadays are mere ordinary factory workers. Of course, there are still great engineers and programmers (not coders) around, and some new fields like ARM-based consumer devices emerged, but I think there are no such feelings like when you saw first ZX Spectrum or Atary or heard its 8-bit sound.