That makes me think of the 1986 vintage Mac SE sitting on one of my tables, more as a decoration than anything. It's new enough that it's almost sorta kinda pos

That makes me think of the 1986 vintage Mac SE sitting on one of my tables, more as a decoration than anything. It's new enough that it's almost sorta kinda possible to get it on the internet, yet also old enough that it's somewhere between an adventure and a PITA to do so, and pretty challenging to do anything vaguely useful with it once you do. I don't know as much about the nitty gritty details as I'd like, but it's damn cool that I can now write 1 line of Ruby that fires off a query at a web server somewhere, gets a JSON reply, parses it into a Hash, and delivers it back to me, doing roughly a kazillion hugely complex things along the way. It lets us all spend a lot more time building things that are useful to customers instead of scrounging around with bits, fun as that can be sometimes.