[hedgehog]

You know that, and I know that, but for someone who started working more recently the difference between CORBA and punch cards might be a little blurry because they're both so far back they've never seen either. It's like kids asking how the dinosaurs in LEGO Jurassic world were animated, because they don't move like real toys, and noting how much easier the 1993 live action Jurassic Park filming was because back then they could just film real dinosaurs. Feels weird, but makes sense from their perspective.

[diegof79]

It's funny that you mention CORBA, because my first contact with Java was through a C++ CORBA service that interfaced with Java (this was around 1999). After that, I worked for many years using Java.

While many things changed, the world of remote services didn’t change radically: different technologies, same concepts.

[auvi]

Jurassic Park 1993 introduced UNIX to the mainstream world. Movies of that era showed SGI Sun, Cray or CM computers. All gone. I miss those days.

[diegof79]

The UNIX scene was funny and probably included because of some marketing arrangement with SGI. I haven’t seen mentions of UNIX in other movies.

For context: in Jurassic Park, there is a scene where a 12-year-old girl sits in front of an SGI workstation to deactivate some doors (or similar) and says, “I know this! This is UNIX; it’s easy”, and uses a 3D UI to navigate files. At that time, an SGI workstation was very expensive and not something you could learn at home, and UNIX-like OSs weren't as common. The scene was like someone saying “I know this it’s a nuclear reactor, it’s easy”

[clan]

Too many secrets, indeed!