[sangnoir]

Is that how it was before the Internet, grandpa?

> It felt nice when you had to...

Said every aging generation ever, I mean, the last part of that sentence could be any of (read a book|sit down and listen to the radio|watch broadcast television) and someone out there reminisces fondly of the better, simpler times.

[eru]

Characteristically, Brooks in the `Mythical Man Month' has no nostalgia for bringing your program in punch cards to the data center, and sees timesharing as an unalloyed good.

(I think it's because the bad old days were still very fresh in memory when he wrote the essays.)