>We also had to make our own ethernet cables, which is where I learned I can't wire ethernet cables if my life depended on it.

Are you me? would always take me about 10 attempts to even get one where all the pins would light up on a tester. But not good enough for high-speed data.

Kids these days, don't know when they were born. They have push-through RJ45 now, piece of piss and you never have one shorter than the other.

I don't miss on-site/DC infrastructure anymore. No more having to squeeze into tiny spaces, balance a lot of expensive kit on your head, and blood donations to the server gods.

Compute is so ubiquitous now I only have like 2 nodes in my lab anyway