>Internet in the 70s? Totally unnecessary for practical uses in the 70s and 80s.

ARPANET was necessary for rapidly exchanging data and compute resources among research labs, which precisely was what it was designed to do. It just happened to find way more uses beyond its initial goals, and evolved into the internet we know today.

My friend's boss won't let them use git because he doesn't want to switch to a "trendy" technology. Yes, git is still "trendy" in 2022 according to this person. I had never heard of the vc they currently use but my friend was not too keen on it to say the least.

Ironic how sometimes people embedded in tech can be the biggest luddites.

Those other examples fall under the intersection of trendy, useful across a spectrum of scenarios, widely adopted, and in hindsight changed the face of technology itself. The comparison is apples to oranges....or a handful of peanut shells to the total population of orange trees to be more accurate.

Oh I remember the days when I was steadfastly staying on an IPX network and only temporarily changing over the TCP/IP to play specific games (Quake 1?). I didn't need this new-fangled TCP nonsense. IPX worked just fine on my 10-baseT coax network :-)

I don't think these technologies ever had entire industries based solely on marketing and Ponzi schemes built around them.

I’m sure everybody has their own definition, but my definition of “not trendy” is some mix of “has been in use long enough that nobody tries to sell it as a cure all wonder technology” and “has only a minimal to moderate presence in the blogosphere”.

rdbms? I'm not ready to jump on that hype train just yet

These are the exceptions that prove the rule.