[mikewarot]

In the 1980s, GIT didn't exist, and CVS was a complicated thing that Unix people used, so I didn't have "proper" version control. I did, however, have a stash of ZIP files of increasing sequence number on floppy disks.

In the 1990s, We used FTP to send files to web servers because we didn't have WebDAV or any more secure protocols at the time. We used tables because that is what we had.

We had fewer tools than today, it really doesn't amount to any learning, just better tool availability. Knowledge itself seems to have stayed about the same.

[markmaglana]

...but aren't those tools a representation of the additional knowledge that the industry accumulated over time?