Hacker News Reader

That's correct but a bit nitpicky. We could talk about punchcards too, but I'm not old enough to credibly make that reference :)

:-)

I could be wrong, but AFAIK, switchboards^W patch panels were the OG programming method.

Cam shafts predate them.

Real programmers use butterflies (mandatory xkcd reference) https://xkcd.com/378/