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The engineers in the 60's were amazing. There was no StackOverflow or Google. You had to know your sh*t.

This reminds me of a comment I responded to on reddit:

Back in the old days, before Foursquare, when you wanted to get together with a bunch of friends downtown, it took massive planning!

My response: Back in those days, we just called it, "planning."

Let me tell you about ancient roman engineers

they didn't even have wheelbarrows.

Let me tell you about the Egyptian engineers.

They didn't even have wheels.

yeah, but how can you call yourself an engineer if you don't even have at least the urge to reinvent the wheel? :)

"Why are you doing that? Don't reinvent the wheel." "What's a 'wheel'?"

This is not entirely true, ancient Egyptians used chariots in warfare, which they originally picked up from the Hyksos [0].