[jiggawatts]

> There will be a a new kind of job for software engineers

New? New!?

This is my job now!

I call it software archeology — digging through Windows Server 2012 R2 IIS configuration files with a “last modified date” about a decade ago serving money-handling web apps to the public.

[mjomaa]

WebForms?

[jiggawatts]

Yes, and classic ASP, WCF, ASP.NET 2.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, etc…

It’s “fun” in the sense of piecing together history from subtle clues such as file owners, files on desktops of other admins’ profiles, etc…

I feel like this is what it must be like to open a pharaoh’s tomb. You get to step into someone else’s life from long ago, walk in their shoes for a bit, see the world through their eyes.

“What horrors did you witness brother sysadmin that made you abandon this place with uneaten takeaway lunch still on your desk next to the desiccated powder that once was a half drunk Red Bull?”