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Dotcom crash and then 9/11, it would have been wild to be in the heart of it at that time.

It was pretty boring, actually. And no, you don't want to go back to the tooling and processor speeds of that time.

Mmmm... getting flashbacks working on Java (generics just came out!) BEA WebLogic projects in Eclipse on Windows XP, configuring cruise control for our ant builds on some ancient Dell desktop in a closet.

Honestly, some things have changed, while others have stayed very similar.

Everything you've mentioned I've had to support. The horrors of the past echo forward as business critical apps that know one really knows anymore.

Covid will be 1000x more impactful when looking back at the two events.

Maybe, but 9/11 had profound consequences which I don't think we fully appreciate yet. For example, you can trace some of Putin's thinking (apparently) to the US response to 9/11 in terms of security and the hypocrisy of the West.

Contrast the effect of the Spanish Flu: it's just...not really considered important compared to what came a few years after. Covid may well be similar. We will see I suppose.

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