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Haha. Would love to hear also about:

1. We're releases and code changes as common as it is now or once you finished writing it's more less that except for bug fixes?

2. Nowadays a lot of non-technical people are also involved in the development process like product owners, project managers, scrum masters, engineering managers, etc. Was this so then?

3. Size of the teams? Was it generally smaller or larger compared to today?

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From my personal experience:

1. Releases were less often, usually in the range of a couple releases (4-6) a year. We had dedicated bug fixing time for two weeks before a release with extensive QA.

2. Mostly the same, except scrum master (or equivalent) was usually the project manager.

3. Generally about the same size teams, but teams had total ownership over what they built. Code bases and services were never split among multiple teams.

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