re: #281 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I’m glad my kids don’t know what a rotary phone is. (Though I’ll probably teach ‘em anyway.) Knowledge of old tech is only useful for two things: Learn from their mistakes, and for updating it to new tech. Just ask the COBOL and FORTRAN programmers of the world, who rake in big bucks from people who persist in keeping old tech past its prime.

My mother-in-law has only rotary phones. Meh. They work for her.

As for COBAL, well, that’s one thing but LISP and FORTRAN are just as old but both are still very useful for research and development.