That's because you weren't even a twinkle in your Dad's eye then.

our internet was home amateur radios with powerful amplified directional antenna . In the fall we could catch skip and once talked to someone in Nova Scotia.

First Computer in High School was a Sperry Rand with punch cards.
It was a government surplus.

Used to advertise in that thing. Hello 1990, the days of Comdex

First real computer I had was a Tandy 1000 with a Radio Shack printer.

Anyone remember the Compaq portable? Or should I say luggable.

Lightning fast 8088, 80286, 386 and 486 cpu's Yes we have come a long way.

The trash 80's !

My first real job was loading greenbar on a IBM 3380 impact printer. My wife was was proud I had a suit job when I went in that first night shift. I came home 12 hours later looking like I had been working in a coal mine.

Digital Equipment Corporation, Univac, Burroughs? All went to the wayside.

Fortran, Cobol, etc.?

Cobol and Assembler. I still see both on the job boards. It is still out there. Mainly in the public sector best I can tell. Likely more resistant to malware than any modern languages.

oh the sounds of those printers printing on that green bar dump paper.

Sixteen of them. Before ear protection was a thing.

ran an ibm 360/20 1972-74 that could do satellite uplink. latest greatest super comms. for the military. figured out how to route a msg around the world and back to myself thru satellites. pretty cool at the time.
had 3 tty keyboards, 2 punch card readers, 2 paper tape, 12 bank mag tape memory and took up about 3,000 sf for the whole deal.

got out and was learning cobol, fortran, snobol (think I got them right) when I had a little difference of opinion with a prof at ou.
wish I had stayed with it back then.

Trash 80 ...... man I miss it