I’m not insisting on anything, sorry if I might have offended you, that was definitely not the intent.
I assumed that you might have started later than the author because you compared the current state to just a few years ago, while the article mainly talks about even further back in history.
The tools I mentioned were not meant for bragging. I just wanted to indicate that back then it was all way simpler, which you know as you apparently started in a similar timeframe to myself.
The main point I wanted to make was that back then things were so much simpler.