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I have a bit more positive look on the future: Jan-2038 is just before my retirement. I can make some money with old computer knowledge while the post-post millennial generation does not even know what the inside of an old operating system looks like.

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Your old computer knowledge will be about the same worth as what income that can be generated today having extensive knowledge of Multi-User Dungeon forum software.

The world does not run on MUDs. The world does run on 30 year old OSes.

Perhaps, perhaps not. I’ve seen things go both ways.

On the one hand, circa 2005 I made an audio recording at 16-bit/44k samples per second, of my graphics lecturer saying “40 joints, 24 samples per second, 16 bits per sample is a huge amount of data. A megabyte after only five minutes!” (My hard drive being 40 gig back then).

On the other hand, when I graduated I ended up seeing several of the algorithms he taught us in use in workplace that did a lot of highly optimised graphics processing.

So... incredibly lucrative if Ready Player One is to be believed.

MUDs were advanced data processing systems. As a kid I wrapped my head around one with a 100k line code base. That has led to quite a successful career and I still use a lot of the same techniques I learned.

That's cool, yeah. Must've seen some interesting coding practices in that code base

https://github.com/smaugmuds/_smaug_/tree/master/src

I still do C so it isn't so far removed.

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