Tech Survivors: Geek Technologies That Still Survive 25 to 50 Years Later
Simply awesome!
Useful review for a couple of reasons:
First: New languages, formats, etc., will emerge but legacy systems “….will be with you always.” (Or at least it will feel that way so being able to interface with legacy systems (understand their semantics) is going to be important for very long time.)
Second: What was it about these technologies that made them succeed? (I don’t have the answer or I would be at the USPTO filing every patent and variant of patent that I could think of. 😉 It is clearly non-obvious because no one else is there either.) Equally long-lived technologies are with us today, we just don’t know which ones.
Would not hurt to put this on your calendar to review every year or so. The more you know about new technologies, the more likely you are to spot a resemblance or pattern matching one of these technologies. Maybe.