Yeah I think it's mostly a piece of fun trivia at this point. If we're talking about designing an interface for non-technical users to interact with the data (an interesting topic), then a modern one would probably look more like the omni-search bars that are part of Splunk/Datadog/etc. Those make it drastically easy to find data (with tableless text-based search by default), and easier to aggregate it too (with the left-to-right pipe | syntax).