Back in My Day...

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Specifics listed: Node running JavaScript on servers; early dynamic web built with CGI and Java applets; open source distributed via BBSes; colossal Linux installs across 31 floppy disks; claims of two decades writing software and an asserted 1590 SAT; a small cloud company solving hard problems with a team of 40 engineers; having worked alongside the creator of BGP. Watch if those concrete anecdotes, numbers and tool stories matter; skip if only the topic interests.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:32Privilege
3. 5:41Back in my day, you learned all the languages
4. 9:58Back in my day, we wrote our dynamic web apps with CGI and Java Applets
5. 26:46Jim Crow laws

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