[coldcode]

In the 1980's, the About box of most applications (Mac and DOS primarily) often listed most of the people who worked on them. Many of the people were also known to others; I usually met many at the precursor to WWDC. It was cool to see your name on something you worked on (I worked on three apps over my two startups, Trapeze, Persuasion, and Deltagraph). Some people got to be pretty rockstar-like (I remember at the first WWDC (not called that yet) in 1986 sitting on a boat with what felt like all the Mac programmers in the world, a whole bunch of us aptly listening to Silicon Beach's Charlie Jackson on how he recorded a cricket for their first game). Because apps and programmers were rare compared to today and something new, you had more of a connection to the people who built things. Today you have no clue and probably don't want to know.

[mindentropy]

Yes sir. I still remember so many DOS applications and especially games. There was a game called Cannon Fodder which had the developers as characters in the game and the About screen was so cool. Man I miss those days.