[SixSigma]

This industry is one of the least aware of its own history, everyone is focussed on tomorrow. We should really include History of Computing as a discipline. Round and Round and Round we go.

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You want to make your way in the CS field? Simple. Calculate rough time of amnesia (hell, 10 years is plenty, probably 10 months is plenty), go to the dusty archives, dig out something fun, and go for it. It’s worked for many people, and it can work for you.

        — Ron Minnich

[digi_owl]

I wonder how much of that has to do with the mainframe-minicomp era having been largely insular relative to the wider population.

Keep in mind that todays server hardware traces its lineage back to IBMs response to microcomputers like the AppleII and C64.